EP6 - “It became a possibility that I, as a musician, could study business.”

Celebrated Jazz musician Nomfundo Xaluva (Cape Town), talks to Chris about growing up during apartheid in South Africa, and explains the influence it had on her identity and her music.

Nomfundo Xaluva (Henley MBA Alumnus) is a multi-award winning Jazz vocalist, composer and academic and she has released 2 albums under the Universal Music Group. Nomfudo is a senior lecturer in Jazz Studies at UCT’s South African College of Music where she graduated with a Master’s Degree in Jazz Studies (Cum Laude) and later the Henley MBA in South Africa.

As an educator, she headed the Vocal Department at the prestigious Cape Academy of Performing Arts and is now the former Vice Chairman of the SAMRO Foundation Board.

Nomfundo’s research interests lie in the intersection where the art of music meets the world of business as well as the repositioning of South African Jazz in the academy. She is a member of the UCT Next Generation Professoriate programme.

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