It’s no longer news, but no less saddening for that, that the glorious burnished baritone of Tshepo Tshola, born in 1953 in Teyateyaneng, Lesotho, was silenced by Covid on 15 July 2021. Tshola, son of a preacher and a church organiser and singer, started his music career in a church choir: “I was a little child of 10 when I started making grown ladies cry in church,” he recalled in 2018. Now, the tears come for a more tragic reason. Robala ka khotso.
See a full obituary here: https://theconversation.com/the-village-pope-has-passed-remembering-tsepo-tshola-lesothos-musical-giant-164650
A Tshepo Tshola Playlist
1984 with Hugh Masekela Pula ea Na
1987 with Sankomota Now or Never
1989 with Sankomota Tough Talk
1995 Stop The War
2001 Bonang Sefapanong from Lesedi
2003 Joala from New Dawn
2008 with Thandiswa Mazwai Ndilinde
2017 With Maduvha Tshedza Tshanga
2017 With Rebecca Malope Nkarabe
Live in 2020 Holokile
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