Nekhane
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| Born | Nakhane Touré Alice, Eastern Cape, South Africa |
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| 🌐 Website | nakhaneofficial |
Nakhane Touré is a South African musician, actor and author. He mostly appears as a solo act. He released his first album Brave Confusion [1] in 2014.
Nakhane starred in critically acclaimed and Oscar short-listed 2017 film The Wound, as a result he received a flood of homophobic comments and death threats.
Early life
Nakhane Touré, born Nakhane Lubabalo Mavuso[2], grew up in Alice, a town in South Africa, in a fundamentalist Christian community. When he was 19, they rejected him after he came out as gay and forced him into conversion therapy.[3]
Discography
- Brave Confusion (2014)
- You will not Die (2018)
Filmography
- The Wound (2017)
Personal Life
Nakhane Touré is openly gay[4]
References
- ↑ https://www.abc.net.au/doublej/music-reads/features/meet-nakhane-the-religious-rebel-who-makes-fearless-fascinating-/10317184
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KI926Ix8530
- ↑ https://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2019/01/23/686620554/nakhane-and-anohni-break-barriers-on-transcendent-new-brighton
- ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/10/arts/music/artists-to-watch-2019.html
Further reading
- Schneier, Matthew (6 March 2019). "'For Nakhane, Songs Can Be Painful and Dangerous. His New Album Is a Balm.'". Music. The New York Times.
- Evstatieva, Monika (23 February 2019). "'Nakhane's New Music Meets At Life's Intersections'". Music. NPR.
- Mokoena, Tshepo (12 April 2018). "'Nakhane: 'For as long as I need to, I'm going to talk about being a gay artist". Music. The Guardian.
- Hutchinson, Kate (3 March 2018). "'One to watch: Nakhane'". Music. The Guardian.
- Torres, Eric (23 February 2019). "'Nakhane You Will Not Die'". Music. Pitchfork.
- Dow, Steve (7 November 2018). "'Nakhane Toure on facing death threats after film debut'". Sydney Festival. The Sydney Morning Herald.
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