Thirty-year-old Zoë Modiga is a singer, songwriter and performer with a background in classical and jazz training and is equally comfortable in house, indie and pop. She has already generated numerous achievements, from multiple selections for the Standard Bank National Youth Jazz Band to winning the SAMRO Overseas Scholarship Competition, and reaching the Top 8 of The Voice SA.
Zoë Modiga will bring her discography, including the beloved debut album “Yellow: The Novel”, the celebrated, award-winning sophomore album “Inganekwane” and the spirited, wildly anticipated new body of work “Nomthandazo” to the National Arts Festival stage.
This offering is a surrealist, hymn book that sets the landscape to everyone and anyone’s unconscious world if they so choose. Inspired by self-realisation, identity and the spirit world, it is coded with sounds and messaging of that quiet private place, and a commentary on the human condition, and draws on places of worship, new age sounds, memory, choral spaces, mantras, and healing energy. A sacral, spirited, ceremonious, whimsical, cinematic work that brings us towards our inner, Godlike selves. It leans into the divine feminine energy, the matriarchal influence, and the nurturing of spirit and of self.
Based on real stories and perspectives about the Creator, higher self, loss, and love, it is conjuring the memory we carry in us as we seek the divinity within ourselves and evidently see all around us.