Judith Sephuma Goes Gospel

 





Judith Sephuma is a South African jazz and Afro-pop singer. She grew up in Polokwane and moved to Cape Town in 1994 to study as a jazz vocalist. In 1997 she graduated from the University of Cape Town with a Performer's Diploma in Jazz and went on to further study. In 1999 she won the "Best Jazz Vocalist" at the Old Mutual Jazz Into The Future competition and signed with the African division of BMG.
Her debut album A Cry, A Smile, A Dance.... was critically acclaimed and she later followed it up with New Beginnings.


 Judith Sephuma recorded her first gospel album live at the Lyric Theatre in Johannesburg.She performed the traditional hymn ‘Ke sekilwe ke Jeso'. She was in Tears and full of passion on the stage during the performances.
"I felt like going to the stage and telling her not to stop singing." says Pastor Benjamin Dube