Tutu Puoane (South Africa)

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BJO with Tutu PuoaneTutu Puoane was the recipient of the Standard Bank Young Artist of the Year Award for Music. She has performed extensively in South Africa with many great South African musicians. In 2001, she performed at the North Sea Jazz Festival Cape Town, leading an Afro-Latino band, Tucan Tucan. Puoane toured New York in 2000 as vocalist with the South African National Youth Big Band of 1999. Tutu leads her own quartet and is a guest vocalist for the great Brussels Jazz Orchestra, with which she recently released an album in honour of Miriam Makeba, called Mama Africa.

• Tutu Puoane performs with the Brussels Jazz Orchestra on the Dinaledi Stage on Friday, August 26 and Saturday, August 27