Dylan Bettencourt
UTsepo Tshola igama elidumile endimeni yomculo waseNingizimu Afrika, udlule emhlabeni eneminyaka engama-67 ngemuva kokulaliswa esibhedlela ngenxa yezinkinga zokhuvethe.
UTshola, obedume kakhulu ngomculo wakhe we-jazz nowe-gospel, ukhiphe ama-albhamu ayisishiyagalombili endimeni yakhe yezomculo. Iphrojekthi yakhe yokuqala, i-The Village Pope yakhishwa ngowezi-1994. I-albhamu yakhe yokugcina i-Nothing Can Beat the Truth yakhululwa eminyakeni eyi-11 eyedlule ngowezi-2010.
UTshola ubematasa nge-albhamu yakhe yesishiyagalolunye i-Killer Joe, kodwa ayikaze ikhishwe.
UTshola uchithe iminyaka yakhe yokugcina efundisa abaculi abasebasha kulo mkhakha abewuthanda kakhulu.
Enkulumweni yakhe yakamuva uthe uthando lwakhe lomculo belungenakugwemeka.
“Bobabili abazali bami babengabaculi, bahlangana ngesikhathi sekhonsathi baphinde bashada esiteji. Ngikhula nabafowethu asebekhulile ababecula futhi bethanda ivangeli, ngawuthanda umculo ngisemncane. Umculo uzohlala uyingxenye yami, uthando lwami lomculo luya ngokuba ngcono usuku nosuku, nothando lwami lwe-Afro jazz luyohlale lukhona.”
Ukuhlonishwa kwale ngqalabutho yomculo kuqhamuke kakhulu ezinkundleni zokuxhumana njengoba i-5FM ibhale ku-Twitter ukuthi: “Lala ngokuthula qhawe, ube ngumuntu onomthelela esingeke siwukhohlwe endimeni yomculo waseNingizimu Afrika.”
I-Capricorn FM iphinde yabhala ku-Twitter ukuhlonipha uTshola ongasekho: “INingizimu Afrika ilahlekelwe yingqalabutho kwezomculo, uTshepo Tshola. Siyabonga ngomculo, umsebenzi wakho asisoze sawukhohlwa.”
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