On: Melanie Scholtz
There’s luck and then there’s serendipity. The latter was singer Melanie Scholtz’s fortune when she encountered poet James Matthews on a random day three years ago. The result is the amazing collaborative album Freedom’s Child: Melanie Scholtz Sings James Matthews, writes Helen Herimbi. The first time Melanie Scholtz became aware of the work of veteran South African poet James Matthews was when her father, a teacher, taught it as a setwork. “The first James Matthews poem I was […]