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Judith Sephuma (born 29 June 1974) is a South African
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and Afro-pop singer.


Biography

Born in Seshego, she was raised in
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,
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, and moved to
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in 1994 to study as a jazz vocalist. In 1997, she graduated from the
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with a Performer's Diploma in Jazz and went on to further study. In 1999, she won the "Best Jazz Vocalist" at the Old Mutual Jazz Into The Future competition and signed with the African division of BMG. Her debut album ''A Cry, A Smile, A Dance'' (2001) was critically acclaimed and she followed it up with ''New Beginnings'' in 2005. Her other albums include ''Change is Here'' (2008), ''I Am A Living Testimony'' (2011), ''A Legacy Live in Concert'' (2012; CD and DVD), and her 2013 debut gospel album titled ''The Experience LIVE in Concert'' with some songs produced by Wilson Joel (CD and DVD). In 2015 she released her album ''One Word'', which she describes as Afro-Funk Jazz. Her following album, ''My Worship - Live'', was released in 2017. In 2019, after a two year discovery period, she released her most recent album, titled 'Power of Dreams', which she has described as "Following a two year journey of self- rediscovery, after the release of her eight album in 2017, The Queen of Afro Jazz, Judith Sephuma, has come back to provoke thoughts and emotions through music with her latest Afro Jazz album titled Power of Dreams." some of the songs included are the album are "power of dreams", "neither of us", and "Ntshwarele". She is recorded and marketed through her independent record label, Lalomba Music.


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Judith Sephuma
official website
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Sephuma, Judith Living people South African College of Music alumni 21st-century South African women singers South African jazz singers South African women jazz singers South African gospel singers English-language singers from South Africa Musicians from Cape Town 1974 births