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Dub
for Mama features stellar performances by Brian de
Goede on drums, Buddy Wells on sax and flute, Brydon
Bolton on double Bass, Tim Parr and Neo Muyanga on
guitar, as well as dubmaster Fanus Tofte on bass.
Ernie grew up on the
Cape
Flats in Grassy Park,
Cape Town and started singing professionally with
Hip Hop legends, Black Noise, at the tender age of
15.
A
natural storyteller, her velvet voice sticks in your
heart like a warm dart, the kind that lingers in
your mind…and keeps you awake at night. Ernestine’s
lyrics cut to the bone. It is the combination of her
honest song writing skills and unforgettable
melodies that earn her royalties off several
international and local compilation albums,
commercials, soundtracks, documentaries and film
scores.
Her
off beat version of ‘Amazing Grace’ receives regular
radio play and in April 2001, ‘Uneek’ with
(Moodphase5ive) held no.1 on the P4 Radio charts for
three consecutive weeks.
A
former drama student, she put her acting skills to
work playing the mother of ‘Twist’ in the feature
film ‘Boy called Twist’ in 2003, a Cape Town take on
the Dickens classic by acclaimed director Tim
Greene. Her voice and original music also graces the
film score. The film was warmly received at the 2005
Cannes film festival.
Ernie has frequently
toured the music festival circuit in Belgium,
Holland,
Germany and the Czech Republic, where she wrote the
epic single ‘Praha Paradise’ on her first visit to
Prague in 2001. The track continues to receive
airplay on the famous European radio station, Radio
One, and appears on her debut album. Some of the
international festivals she has attended are the
Haarlem Jazz Festival, Womad, Hove Live Festival,
Pukkelpop, Westerpop, Global Connection, The
Lowlands Festival and North Sea Jazz Festival.
Her
most recent music collaboration is a production
called ‘Womantide’, where she joins forces with two
other phenomenal female artists, singer/songwriter,
Tina Schouw and performance poet, Malika Ndlovu. In
the show, the three women weave vocal magic through
their poetry and music, in honour of the human
spirit.
Ernestine Deane’s album, dub for Mama,
can only be described as a pioneering sound for
South Africa. An infusion of dub, soul and jazz, the
music provides a potent platform for an incredible
vocal expression of stories inspired by her life as
a young brown woman in post-apartheid South Africa.
In it
Ernie explores the hardships and beauty of the
country, paying respect to mothers of all kind: Cape
Town- the Mother city, Africa- the Mother land,
Mother Earth, Mother Nature, and nurturers of all
things growing…this beautiful album is an ode to the
human’s ability to triumph over adversity. It is
indeed an offering of integrity unto an industry
polluted with monotonous and conscience-less music.
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