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Soweto's difficulties still provide the choir's musical inspiration. Soprano Fikile Sidumo, 34, saw one uncle shot dead in the street when she was a teenager, and another uncle died of AIDS in November. Before joining the choir in 2003, she earned just $25 a month from singing and dancing at weddings - not enough to support the three families living in her shack in the dirt-poor township of Alexandra, near Soweto. The choir, which pays members a day rate of $20 per rehearsal, seemed the answer to her prayers, until she collapsed during a performance and was diagnosed...
...sail on the Cape 2. Paint, dance, or sing 3. Play sports, win Beirut tournaments 4. Take long walks through Cambridge Common...
...voice, louder than anything I had heard all evening said, ‘O.K., this is it, they’re coming,’” Jody Adams ’69 wrote in The Crimson that year, “We all began to sing, ‘We Shall Not be Moved,’ but all anyone knew was the first verse so we stopped...
Saxophonist Marcus G. Miller ’08 introduced Byrant with an anecdote of the first time he heard her sing. “She sounded like a tuning fork, her pitch was so clean and clear. I was like, ‘What’s that?’ and she was like, ‘That’s me, singing...
Bryant went on to sing a few “oldie-but-goodies,” really connecting with the audience. By the end of the night, people were arm-in-arm and swaying to the music. “The audience is fantastic,” Ekekezie said. “Just like we had hoped. Great turn out, great energy. Everything’s great...