Boipelo and Nomalanga

“Boipelo Matlhare, a spiritual practitioner who channels energies from all elements into healing paths and self-produces monthly moonsongs in Setswana as an expression of life's mystic revelations is a gold gem of Afrika.” ~Dr Baba Buntu

Boipelo is a South African Singer-songwriter for self-transformation and positive behavioural change, Holistic health practitioner, Facilitator, Mechanical Design technician, and Entrepreneur. Her vast abilities blends into an out of the box approach to her compilation of metaphysics and music. The ‘LOVE OF SELF”, an innovative song genre, enraptures the indigenous Africa language, Setswana, Jazz, Rap, Electro and Soul. Her work is an enlightening foundation of African cosmology, rooted in indigenous knowledge systems in an expression of poetry and music, music therapy, art and educational programs aimed at promoting health and wellness, self-mastery and self-sustainability. 

Boipelo’s singing career began at the tender age of three where she sang in her mother’s choir. She was strongly influenced by the classical and soulful genres from her parents’ Motown and Jazz collection that she was constantly exposed to. She recalls the music of Nat King Cole and Tania Maria being amongst some of the strongest influences. She started writing songs at age twelve and at age twenty, while studying Mechanical Engineering, started playing the guitar. She started playing the trumpet at age 24 and piano at age 25. She began performing around Pretoria and Johannesburg, South Africa in 2005 and has sung with bands such as BLQ and Studio Waste Productions. This led to her becoming the lead singer and songwriter of her first band with two musicians from the renowned “Four Seasons” jazz quartet that has been featured at the Standard Bank Joy of Jazz Festival and a vocalist.

In 2010 she was invited to perform at the Sudan 365 held in Johannesburg by the Human Rights Institute of South Africa which was part of the Global ‘Beat for Peace’ in Sudan Campaign. Other notable performances have been at the COP17 Conference for Climate Change in 2011, Durban and Courageous Conversations 2012, Johannesburg as part of the City of Tshwane’s civil society environmental activist group, “My Planet My Choice,” The Free Minds Festival in Kimberley 2013, The Ratha Yatra Festivals in Pretoria 2012-2014, the Go Play the  World Sessions 2015-2019 Dubai, and the Women in Music: Women's day Celebration Concert in Johannesburg 2021.

Her debut music project is a double release of Ba Ra Song and Moonsongs Volume1 self-released through Ba Ra Sound in September 2018, followed up by Wombdance Volume 1 in 2021.

In 2019 she founded the Ba Ra Healing and Sounding Institute, a center for the applied music and indigenous healing arts, to encourage and promote personal, collective and environmental healing, through different products, programs, one-on-one and group consulting services. In 2022 she became a member of Women in Music South Africa, a non-profit organization committed to advancing equality, visibility and opportunities for women in the musical arts through education, support, empowerment and recognition. She is currently working on a new album- Musical integrating:...