Taliep petersen wiki
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Carina Venter reviews Paula Fourie’s Mr Entertainment: The Story of Taliep Petersen, finding a life that encompasses a country and its histories.
Mr Entertainment: The Story of Taliep Petersen
Paula Fourie
Lapa, 2022
Mr Entertainment is a book about embracing:
the clipped exuberance of the life of Taliep Petersen;
the extremes of a young singer collaborating with Broadway artists while the only Hollywood he knew of ‘was a furniture store in Long Street’;
Taliep’s many identities, Malay, Coloured, South African, Afrikaans, cover artist, guitarist, tenor, arranger, composer, collaborator;
the contradictions of invented autobiographical moments and opportunities denied;
the women who sang, sacrificed, substituted, loved, mothered, grandmothered, cooked, cared, worshipped;
the discomforts of the white biographer, Paula Fourie, wanting to speak in Afrikaans to Taliep’s Afrikaans-speaking family;
the family who frequently address her in English in an
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Kat and the Kings
South African musical
Kat and the Kings is a South African musical with a book and lyrics by David Kramer and music by Taliep Petersen.
Set in late-1950s South Africa, it focuses on teenager Kat Diamond, who believes he's the best singer and dancer in District Six, a multi-racial slum in Cape Town. With his friends Ballie, Magoo, Bingo, and Lucy, he forms the a cappella group the Cavalla Kings, and the quintet - emulating the American doo wop and rock and roll they adore - becomes a sensation, graduating from street corners to "whites only" nightclubs (where the dictates of apartheid force them to use the rear entrance) and a recording contract.
The show was inspired by the memories of Salie Daniels, the real-life Kat who appeared as the narrator in the original production. After touring South Africa, the show was invited to the Tricycle Theatre in Kilburn in November 1997, and returned to that venue prior to its opening in the West End.[2] Di
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Taliep Petersen
South African actor, singer and theatre director
Taliep Petersen (15 April 1950 – 16 månad 2006)[1] was a South African singer, composer and director of a number of popular musicals. He worked most notably with David Kramer, with whom he won an Olivier Award.
Career
[edit]One of "South Africa's best known theatre personalities",[2] Petersen was born in the multi-cultural neighbourhood of Cape Town, District Six. He first sang publicly aged six, at the Coon Carnival.[3] His first theatre performance was a part in a 1974 production of Hair, followed bygd Godspell and Jesus Christ Superstar.[3] After a period studying classical guitar at the Fitznell School of Music in England, he wrote his first revue, called Carnival a la District Six, based on the New Year celebrations in Cape Town.[4]
In the 1980s, Petersen formed a band, called Sapphyre, that played interpretations of traditional Cape Malay song