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Mar
28
2023
By The African Mirror
Gloria Bosman: a personal reflection on the loss of a South African jazz great

Gloria Bosman: a personal reflection on the loss of a South African jazz great

ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT
WE have no idea what we have just lost. None. Prolific singer, composer and educator Gloria Bosman, who passed away on 14 March 2023, was someone I could only describe as South Africa’s most interactive artistic archive. Interactive not because she housed so much knowledge about the unique relationship between music and South Africans as a people, but also because she transmitted this knowledge to others at every opportunity. If you ever found yourself in the same room with Gloria, you were in for a lesson of a lifetime. Author NOMFUNDO XALUVA, Senior Lecturer, South African College of Music, University…
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Mar
21
2023
By The African Mirror
Gloria Bosman was more than a South African jazz vocalist, she was a guiding light

Gloria Bosman was more than a South African jazz vocalist, she was a guiding light

ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT
THE immediate public reaction to the death of Gloria Bosman from a short respiratory illness on 14 March 2023 was shocked disbelief. The multiple award-winning South African jazz vocalist, composer and teacher was only 50. She had just launched a new album, Live, her first in a dozen years, and was on the eve of a promotional tour. Author GWEN ANSELL, Associate of the Gordon Institute for Business Science, University of Pretoria Warm tributes followed, from family, friends and industry colleagues, and from a whole generation of singers for whom – directly and indirectly – she had served as a…
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