Judith Sephuma is a South African multi award winning artist of international standard.
She has been dubbed “The Queen of Afro Jazz“.
Judith is an acclaimed prolific and versatile singer with multiple platinum status selling albums. Her angelic, soft, sultry and melodic voice has continued to dominate airwaves for over to two decades.
Judith continues to impress the worl
d with her talent and versatility performing for thousands of fans around the world including her travels to sold out shows in Europe, the USA and the United Kingdom. Judith Sephuma is very well known for her multi-status selling jazz albums and her platinum-status selling gospel album The Experience Live in Concert.
Judith’s career has continued to rise and has attracted interest and acclaim from jazz , afro-soul and gospel music lovers all over the world since the release of her triple platinum-status selling debut album titled “A Cry, A smile, A Dance” released in 2001.
Judith has performed at all major jazz festivals in South Africa. She performed at the North Sea Jazz Festival in Cape Town in 2000 before her debut album was even released; and went to perform at the same festival in Holland in 2002 alongside Marcus Miller and Roy Hargrove to name a few just after the debut album release.
Other sentimental highlights include being invited by the guitar maestro Jimmy Dludlu to perform at Thabo Mbeki’s presidential inauguration in Pretoria. In that same year she also had the honour of meeting and performing for president Nelson Mandela. She sang a special song to Graca Machel and Madiba – the start of a friendship that continued for many years.
In 2012, Judith travelled to Addis Ababa to perform for Heads of State. She is an ambassador of the One Campaign and has travelled to Washington DC, USA to perform for Heads of State in 2014. She is associated with the poverty is sexist campaign that continues to get her involved in making a difference in our society and all over the African continent.
Titled “One Word”, Judith’s jazz album was released in 2015. Described as a funky-Afro Jazz Album, it continues to receive great airplay and reviews all over the world. It is a crossover of what you know as Judith Sephuma; and what you are about to discover about this versatile and talented singer.
She has worked and shared stage with international artists like Bebe Winans, Oletta Adams, Jonathan Butter, Al Jarreau, Randy Crawford and Chaka Khan. Her collaboration with Michael Bolton singing an old classic “Over the Rainbow” and another with Kenny G on the triple platinum seller “A cry A smile A dance” qualifies her as one of the top singer and performers that South Africa has ever produced.