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FOCUS ON: Thabani Band
- Official Website >>
- Label: Ndebele Music >>
- Genre: Soul & Dance
Sublime Concious lyrics fused with a passionate soul-Afro-Funk musical landscape combine to make this one of Soul musics most important working bands today.
Described by BBC Network Afrikas Lara Pawson as being An album of our time and
the THABANI band are clearly winning over industry insiders with their biting social concious tunes and organic live vibrant following!
The group have been featured on BBC Radio 1 on Gilles Petersons show One
World with Gilles Peterson describing them as Ones to watch and they
have also been featured on BBC Radio 2 on the Mica Paris Soul Soulutions
programme, where Mica Paris described them as Up and coming soul talent
Acclaimed Black music DJ Dr Bob Jones described their music BBC London Live
as Organic black soul music, full of fire!!. Rita Ray featured them on BBC
Radio 4 and described their music as fantastic band with afro beat
influences!! And the band were featured on BBC Radio 3 on the Late Junction
with Shareeha Asante in which she commented "the music does have "a laidback
and infectious soulful groove which also retains rhthyms and spirit of
Africa through the melodic vocals of Thabani"
The band played several high profile gigs in 2005 where they headlined and
SOLD OUT Ronnie Scotts, they also featured as musical guests at Make
Poverty History gigs at the British museum where they met Bob Geldof and
Gordon Brown who both complimented their set!! The year ended on a superb
high with an electrifying sold out gig in Londons Cafe De Paris.
The band are on tour with Geno Washington around the country from Feb 2006
until March, they then headline the world famous Ronnie Scotts in March and
then they will then headline a World Music Tour which will play to several
universities in the UK!! from May, with sponsorship coming from Red Stripe,
Samsung Mobile phone company and NUS.
