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Tutu 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