Sky Dladla
Sky Dladla
Sibahle Sky Dladla was born in the township of Gugulethu, Cape Town. Sky is an African instrumentalist, a percussionist, marimba maker, a songwriter, singer and bow instrument maker. Sky has graduated the
University of Cape Town with a Diploma and an Advance Diploma in African Instruments and now she’s completing her Post Grad Diploma in African Music. She is the founder of
Blackroots Marimbas, the co-founder of Azanian Aesthetics and duo Indigenous Too. Sky’s main instruments are marimba, uhadi bow, nyunga nyunga, mbira, djembe and kayombe.
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This song was inspired by the beautiful work of South African feminist author Dr Pumla Gqola, whose book 'A Renegade Called Simphiwe' unravels the story of award winning South African musician & activist. When we imagined the song - we thought of no better collaborator than African Multi-Instrumentalist Sky Dladla who captured our message beautifully with the drums & pipe. A mix of South African jazz, Xhosa lyrics & vocals as well as Southern African instruments.