BY PHUMZILE NDLOVU
MBABANE – Just in time to celebrate International Women’s Day, Floewe Dladla has today released her new single, titled ‘Sawubona’.
The song is about a girl who is overcome with nostalgia for her childhood era. After being away from home for over a decade, her family and friends are delighted to welcome her back.
Floewe is signed under the New Life Entertainment stable, managed by Thembinkosi Mthetwa. The singer confirmed that the song is out and can be streamed on all digital platforms.
She also announced the news on her Facebook page yesterday and wrote: “I amm excited to announce that my new single ‘Sawubona’ drops in a few hours. Please stream on all digital platforms. To all those who have been patient with me, I thank you, Kakhulu. Ngiyanitsandza and it is good to be back.”
Floewe boasts of several accolades including Winner Afro-Soul Artist of the Year, National Arts and Culture Awards 2015, Winner Album of the Year, NACA Awards 2015, and Winner for Best Album for the MTNSWAMA 2021/22.
Floewe is expressive, emotionally honest, optimistic, and inspirational. She is a singer-songwriter who celebrates her talent and uses the spotlight to address social issues. An intuitive and emotive performer, she has the special quality of making her audience feel what she feels when she sings.
Bringing together soul, R&B, and jazz, Floewe is deeply rooted in African music, inflected with the township sounds she grew up on. Fluently switching between Swati and English, her joy in her music is palpable. She is genuine, unafraid to be vulnerable, and free-spirited. When she sings, life is real, love is real, failing is real, and winning is real.
She sings about everyday life. While her debut album ‘Mayibuye’ was young and unafraid, her latest album is a more sophisticated affair, more conscious, humanitarian, and emotive, exploring societal issues with warm, smooth vocals cocooned in silky melodies.
She has performed at the Standard Bank Luju Food & Lifestyle Festival in 2018, 2021
Floewe also headlined the MTN Bushfire Music Festival 2015 and also collaborated with the all-female Grammy Award-winning African-American a cappella group Sweet Honey in the Rock, 2017. Floewe headlined the AZGO Festival in Mozambique in 2014. She also performed at the National Tribal Dance Festival in the capital of Chhattisgarh in India in 2021. She also performed in Accra Ghana in 2021; and many more places.
