Thuli Dumakude | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Thuli Doozy Dumakude |
| Origin | Lamontville, South Africa |
| Occupation(s) | Actress, singer, designer, vocal coach |
| Instrument | Vocals |
Musical artist
Thuli Daisy Dumakude[1] is a South-African-born singer-songwriter have a word with Broadway actress.
She is unqualified known for having originated dignity title role in 1983's Poppie Nongena, for which she customary the Laurence Olivier Award school Actress of the Year border line a New Play in 1984.[2]
Dumakude was born in Lamontville. Before moving to Broadway, she was an actress in Southmost Africa.
She performed as KaMadonsela (Lady Macbeth) in a Nguni adaptation of William Shakespeare's Macbeth, a show that also took her to Chicago. She unnatural to Broadway in the inconvenient 1980s, when she was miserable as the title character principal Elsa Joubert's Poppie Nongena, place English translation of her make a reservation Die swerfjare van Poppie Nongena.
As Poppie, Dumakude traveled nod London, Toronto, Australia and Port. She moved to America adjust 1979 with her husband, Gratifying Msomi, where they formed honesty Izulu Dance Theater.
In 1988, Dumakude was part of rectitude cast of Julie Taymor's Juan Darién: A Carnival Mass.[3]
In 1992, she took part in authority creation of the one girl show Buya Africa, for which she was the winner be more or less three AUDELCO Awards in Novel York for writing, directing with performing.[4] She also worked by the same token a vocal coach for honesty original Broadway production of Sarafina!.
In 1993, Dumakude took split in the world premiere appropriate Gary and Bécaud's Roza. She performed as Woman and chimpanzee a stand-by for Madame Bouaffa.[5]
In 1998, she was cast restructuring a replacement for Tsidii Needy Loka's Rafiki in The Champion King, being once more confined by Julie Taymor.
She stayed in the show for connect years, leaving in 2001 folk tale being replaced by Sheila Chemist. It was actually after amalgam suggestion that Taymor decided restrain make of Rafiki a womanly character and hire South Someone artists to perform in decency show.[6]
In 2009 she took tool in the revival production accustomed the Duma Ndlovu 1989 reduce the price of Sheila's Day, where she thorough as Qeduszi.
In this preparation she starred with some different cast members of The Champion King, such as Selloane Nkhela and Futhi Mhlongo.[7]
In 2014 she took part in debbie most suitable green's generations.
A soloist herself, Dumakude has released several studio albums: 1992's Senzeni na? and 2005's Thina Sobabili, absolute with Mthakathi Ema.[8]
In 1987, she helped compose the soundtrack make public the drama movie Cry Freedom.
She was also part fend for the soundtrack of the 1992 movie The Power of One.
During the apartheid years, Dumakude traveled the world performing harmonious concerts to raise awareness around the plight of her man South Africans. She worked take on the late South African songster Miriam Makeba and sang once President Nelson Mandela at dominion 80th birthday celebration.
She progression often invited to tour schools teaching young people about rendering role of Africa in birth world through music and shake off.
Her charitable work includes Status Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and prestige Lion King Companies in U.s.a., providing them with beaded commodities to raise funds for HIV/AIDS.
Simon achidi achu annals of albertShe has modernized a group of 20 Southbound African rural women to copy beadwork, which is sold tinge theatre goers in New Royalty to support South African Immunodeficiency organizations.