Gabi Motuba

Bio

Gabi Motuba is a South African award-winning jazz vocalist, composer and music educator. She studied at a South African University known as Tshwane University of Technology where she majored in jazz studies and graduated with a bachelor's degree. Over the years she has produced several albums, ranging from jazz to avant-gard to experimental, which include Tefiti-Goddess of creation (her debut album released in 2018), Sanctum Sactorium (A duo album which features Swiss pianist Malcom Braff released in 2015) and The Wretched (which is a sonic experimentation collab that focuses on the literary text The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon released in 2020).
Gabi Motuba oscillates between being a performer and being a sound artist which has given her plenty of opportunities for collaborative work around the world. Gabi collaborated with a German based sound artist (Coila Enderstein) in 2021 during her residency at the Goethe Institute and co composed The Violence of Care experimental work.
In 2022, Gabi was selected to be part of the 2022 music cohort for the Mutual Mentorship for Musicians program founded by American jazz singer Jen Shyu. Gabi is currently working on a second album The Sabbath which is written for strings. Gabi Motuba is currently a fellow at UWC and is teaching music at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg.

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Portrait de Gabi Motuba

Gabi Motuba a ajouté un nouveau morceau

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Order My Steps
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Portrait de Gabi Motuba

Gabi Motuba a ajouté 2 nouveaux morceaux

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Tumi Mogorosi
The Arrival
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Tumi Mogorosi
Reincarnation
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Portrait de Gabi Motuba

Gabi Motuba a ajouté 3 nouvelles vidéos

The Rapture Revisited by Gabi Motuba at the 2023 M3 Festival in Brooklyn New York
The Adhan by Gabi Motuba at 2023 M3 Festival in Brooklyn New York
2023 Tefiti documentary trailer in collaboration with the MABU ART FOUNDATION (Gabi Motuba)

Musique

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Order My Steps
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Tumi Mogorosi
The Arrival
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Tumi Mogorosi
Reincarnation
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Letters to Akani
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Vidéos

The Rapture Revisited by Gabi Motuba at the 2023 M3 Festival in Brooklyn New York
The Adhan by Gabi Motuba at 2023 M3 Festival in Brooklyn New York
2023 Tefiti documentary trailer in collaboration with the MABU ART FOUNDATION (Gabi Motuba)
The Violence/ Politics of Care
To Reckon through Complexities by Gabi Motuba & Sraya Murtikanti
Gabi Motuba presents THE SABBATH Live at the 2022 Makhanda Festival
The Scream by Gabi Motuba
a moment to mourn by Gabi Motuba
An Exchange between Wretched Lovers
A Call to Sound by Gabi Motuba
A Story told through Sound
the Sabbath epk by Gabi Motuba
Gabi Motuba (Composer) workshop
My Grandmothers House - Tumi Mogorosi Sonic Lecture - Taken from Chips and Etc series
Snippet of Remember Me by Gabi Motuba live at University of Johannesburg 2019
Group Theory by Tumi Mogorosi feat Gabi Motuba on vocals
Flower Goddess by Gabi Motuba music video
Ameni Ya Mawesele arranged by Gabi Motuba (Jazz vocalist/Composer/ Arranger)
Sanctum Sanctorium by Gabi Motuba and Tumi Mogorosi (LIVE album recording)

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ZAJohannesburg, South Africa
Opérationnel depuis: 
2014

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