Before there were stages, there were fires. Before there were audiences, there were people — gathered around their king, their voices rising in unison, their songs carrying the weight of a nation’s hopes, fears, and victories. Music was not performed. It was lived. It was the air inside the most important moments in history. Mbuso Khoza invites you back to that circle.
Mbuso Khoza is no stranger to the intersection of music and screen. As the composer behind the haunting score of Umkhokha: The Curse — the breakout Showmax series that captivated South African audiences and broke viewership records — Khoza demonstrated a rare ability to use sound as storytelling, to make music the emotional architecture of a world. Where Umkhokha drew audiences into the shadows of the supernatural, his next undertaking asked something even more profound of him.
In one of the most ambitious creative undertakings in recent South African television history, Mbuso Khoza served as the musical soul of Shaka iLembe — the epic retelling of the rise of one of Africa’s greatest kings. Through Amahubo, the ancient Zulu hymns that predate written record, Khoza did not simply score a show. He resurrected a soundscape. He gave voice to a people at the exact moment they were becoming a nation. Now, for the first time, that music steps off the screen and into the room with you.
A Zulu Soundtrack is a live concert experience unlike anything on the South African stage. Drawing from his celebrated work on Shaka iLembe and anchored in the ancient tradition of Amahubo, Mbuso Khoza recreates the world where music was not background — it was the record. The story. The memory.
In the time of Shaka, when great decisions were made and history turned on a single moment, it was song that bore witness. It was the human voice — gathered, communal, ancestral — that ensured nothing would be forgotten. That voice belongs to all of us. Mbuso Khoza has spent a lifetime making sure we remember that.
_”His music moves between jazz, traditional African music, and praise singing — and the crowds gathering are noticeably younger. Students, artists, and young professionals fill the room, many encountering this sound for the first time, yet recognising something ancient within themselves.” — OkayAfrica
This is what Mbuso Khoza does. He does not ask you to go back. He shows you that you never left.
One voice. Ancient songs. A story that belongs to all of us.
Mbuso Khoza presents: A Zulu Soundtrack
Ilembe — An Evening of Amahubo
Before there were stages, there were fires. Before there were audiences, there were people — gathered around their king, their voices rising in unison, their songs carrying the weight of a nation’s hopes, fears, and victories. Music was not performed. It was lived. It was the air inside the most important moments in history. Mbuso Khoza invites you back to that circle.
Mbuso Khoza is no stranger to the intersection of music and screen. As the composer behind the haunting score of Umkhokha: The Curse — the breakout Showmax series that captivated South African audiences and broke viewership records — Khoza demonstrated a rare ability to use sound as storytelling, to make music the emotional architecture of a world. Where Umkhokha drew audiences into the shadows of the supernatural, his next undertaking asked something even more profound of him.
In one of the most ambitious creative undertakings in recent South African television history, Mbuso Khoza served as the musical soul of Shaka iLembe — the epic retelling of the rise of one of Africa’s greatest kings. Through Amahubo, the ancient Zulu hymns that predate written record, Khoza did not simply score a show. He resurrected a soundscape. He gave voice to a people at the exact moment they were becoming a nation. Now, for the first time, that music steps off the screen and into the room with you.
A Zulu Soundtrack is a live concert experience unlike anything on the South African stage. Drawing from his celebrated work on Shaka iLembe and anchored in the ancient tradition of Amahubo, Mbuso Khoza recreates the world where music was not background — it was the record. The story. The memory.
In the time of Shaka, when great decisions were made and history turned on a single moment, it was song that bore witness. It was the human voice — gathered, communal, ancestral — that ensured nothing would be forgotten. That voice belongs to all of us. Mbuso Khoza has spent a lifetime making sure we remember that.
_”His music moves between jazz, traditional African music, and praise singing — and the crowds gathering are noticeably younger. Students, artists, and young professionals fill the room, many encountering this sound for the first time, yet recognising something ancient within themselves.” — OkayAfrica
This is what Mbuso Khoza does. He does not ask you to go back. He shows you that you never left.
One voice. Ancient songs. A story that belongs to all of us.
Come and take your place in the circle.
Show info:
Doors open: 6pm | Show starts: 8pm
This series offers reserved seating only.
Quicket: R350 | Door: R400
Details
Venue
Johannesburg, Gauteng 2017 South Africa + Google Map