14 • December 2016 • UPBEAT TIMES, INC.
Holiday GUIDE #2
Musical Notes in Sonoma County Upbeat Times Exclusive Interveiw: With Zulu Spear
by Shekeyna Black •
Shekeyna@AMiracleProductionAMP.com
SONOMA COUNTY, CA. ~ From South Africa to Sonoma County from Soweto to Santa Rosa, Gideon Bendile has sung and danced his way around
the world sharing the music and culture of his first home- land. He has proudly called So- noma County home since 1989. Gideon worked with the Voena
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Children’s Choir, Safari West and has performed on Broad- way and had an extensive en- gagement working with a group of 27 artists in Las Vegas, to name but a few of his remark- able achievements. Gideon has delighted audiences as the lead vocalist and dancer for the #1 Afro-Worldbeat Dance Band, Zulu
Spear. Te
2016 CD released
by Zulu Spear is entitled Danc-
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ing in the Jungle; which is also the name of one of the 14 tracks. Te CD engages and inspires the listen- er with songs like, “Pray Now” and
“Calling Te Hearts.”
During the early years of Zulu Spear, the band was signed to Capitol Records on their Lib- erty label out of Nashville. Gideon practices, Ubuntu;
which he says to him means, “humanness everyday, acts of kindness everyday.” He speaks with great reverence for Nelson Mandela and what he sacrificed for the South African people to be free from Apartheid. “Just ... continued on page 28
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