Sipho hot stix mabuse biography books
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'When inom started inom had to immerse myself in books, this was something new after not being in class for so long'
WITH a Lifetime Achievement Award from the South African music industry beneath his belt, experience on the boards of the National Arts Council and South African Musicians Rights Organisation, as well as an almost 50-year music career behind him, Sipho "Hotstix" Mabuse has gone back to the classroom.
The music legend has signed up at Peter Lengene Adult Basic Education Training School at Thaba-Jabula Secondary School in Klipspruit, Soweto, to get his matric certificate. This is the first step towards his ultimate education goal - a masters degree in anthropology.
He has registered for history, geography and business economics. He enrolled for six subjects last year but failed two.
"Although inom cannot predict my results, I am aiming for an A," he said.
Mabuse dropped out of school at Grade 11 in 1969 to pursue his music career as a member of the then popular
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Sipho's music featured in the December 2021 summer campaign for MTN, and he made the cover of the Jan/Feb issue GQ Magazine (2021/22) which included a 16-page feature. He is a recipient of a GQ Lifetime Achievement Award (December 2021).
As former-president Kgalema Motlanthe wrote on Sipho’s 70th birthday:
My brother Sipho, we have come a long way together, and through your 70 year-long pilgrimage to the highest echelons of social, cultural and artistic eminence, we remember the distinguished milestones of your life and honour this as a moment for all South Africans to consider your pioneering contribution to African music and a global movement of expression.
From the tender age of 8 years old playing drums to already becoming a professional musician by age 15, yours is a seminal career that not only spans six decades and counting but is a career that defined an industry with an oeuvre that set the tone for a golden era of music.
The sound of Sipho &
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The 14th edition of Music Exchange is a one-day conference jam-packed with stellar speakers.
The conference welcome is by award-winning Siphokazi Jonas, who has just published her debut book by Penguin Random House, “Weeping Becomes a River”.
We then have our esteemed thought leader, investigative journalist and film writer/ director/ producer, Diana Neille, who will attend and deliver the keynote address at this year’s Music Exchange Conference (#MEX24) being held on 30th November, from 9 am to 4:30 pm in Cape Town.
Her highly anticipated keynote – A Reporter’s Notes on Intermediary Impunity: Can the South African Music Industry be Reformed?– will be one no one invested in the entertainment business should miss.
The multi-talented Columbia University Masters graduate will discuss the dark underbelly of the