It’s no longer news, but no less saddening for that, that the glorious burnished baritone of Tshepo Tshola, born in 1953 in Teyateyaneng, Lesotho, was silenced by Covid on 15 July 2021. Tshola, son of a preacher and a church organiser and singer, started his music career in a church choir: “I was a little child of 10 when I started making grown ladies cry in church,” he recalled in 2018.  Now, the tears come for a more tragic reason. Robala ka khotso.

See a full obituary here: https://theconversation.com/the-village-pope-has-passed-remembering-tsepo-tshola-lesothos-musical-giant-164650

A Tshepo Tshola Playlist

1984 with Hugh Masekela Pula ea Na

1987 with Sankomota Now or Never

1989 with Sankomota Tough Talk

1995 Stop The War

2001 Bonang Sefapanong from Lesedi

2003 Joala from New Dawn

2008 with Thandiswa Mazwai Ndilinde

2017 With Maduvha Tshedza Tshanga

2017 With Rebecca Malope Nkarabe

Live in 2020 Holokile