{"id":8798,"date":"2026-07-27T15:38:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T15:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interspacemusic.com\/blog\/vusi-mahlasela-sets-new-album-questions-and-answers-for-next-month\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T16:03:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T16:03:59","slug":"vusi-mahlasela-sets-new-album-questions-and-answers-for-next-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/interspacemusic.com\/blog\/vusi-mahlasela-sets-new-album-questions-and-answers-for-next-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Vusi Mahlasela Sets New Album \u2018Questions and Answers\u2019 for Next Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South African singer-songwriter <a href=\"https:\/\/interspacemusic.com\/blog\/vusi-mahlasela-to-headline-jozi-gold-jazz-series-on-25-july\/\"><strong>Vusi Mahlasela<\/strong><\/a> will release a new album, <strong>\u2018Questions and Answers\u2019<\/strong>, next month. The project is preceded by three singles: \u2018Questions and Answers\u2019, \u2018Set\u0161hu sa Ditamati\u2019, and \u2018Let There Be Peace\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview, Mahlasela described the album\u2019s central theme. \u201cPeople have got a lot of questions about what is happening right now: about crime, about injustices. People need answers, and we need to get to a space where there is peace, justice and equality,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<h2>A Career Built on Ministering, Not Hits<\/h2>\n<p>Mahlasela\u2019s approach to recording has always been deliberate. \u201cI\u2019ll never sign a contract that says I have to do an album every year. That\u2019s not possible. I only go to the studio when I have material, when it\u2019s the right time,\u201d he said. \u201cMy music has been growing steadily, gradually. And it stays there. People love it, because that\u2019s the accent of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vusimahlasela.com\/\">Vusi Mahlasela<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He rejects the label of hitmaker. \u201cMahlasela is not about hits. I\u2019m ministering through my music. I\u2019m not doing this to become a star or whatever,\u201d he said. That stance has not prevented his work from reaching wide audiences. His song <strong>\u2018Silang Mabele\u2019<\/strong>, a call for collective action against poverty, won Best Song at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.samusicawards.co.za\/\">South African Music Awards<\/a> in 1998, where he also took home Best Male. The track later gained international exposure when it appeared in Gavin Hood\u2019s Academy Award-winning film <em>Tsotsi<\/em> in 2005.<\/p>\n<h2>Roots in Activism and Collaboration<\/h2>\n<p>Mahlasela\u2019s writing draws on a history of political engagement. During the 1980s he was a member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Congress_of_South_African_Writers\">Congress of South African Writers (COSAW)<\/a>, which connected him with artists, writers and musicians. Poet Lesego Rampolokeng became a close collaborator and introduced him to author Nadine Gordimer, who funded his guitar lessons.<\/p>\n<p>In 1990, a performance at a London festival caught the attention of Warrick Sony of Shifty Records. Sony and his business partner Lloyd Ross persuaded Mahlasela to record his debut album, <em>When You Come Back<\/em>, initially pressed on 500 cassettes and later released widely through a partnership with BMG Africa. Mahlasela has downplayed comparisons between \u2018Silang Mabele\u2019 and Sankomota\u2019s \u2018Now Or Never\u2019, stating that his song was rooted in a childhood tune and written to address hunger, poverty and agricultural revolution.<\/p>\n<h2>Music as Diagnosis and Healing<\/h2>\n<p>Mahlasela views his role in broad, almost pastoral terms. \u201cWhen I was in school, I always wanted to become a doctor or a priest. And lately somebody told me: but you\u2019re already doing it with your music. You\u2019re preaching, you\u2019re teaching, and you\u2019re also healing with your music,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m the kind of doctor who has to diagnose problems in the society, put it through my work, sing about it, and let the people debate those issues and come up with solutions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He continues to write prolifically. The three new singles, he confirmed, are drawn from the forthcoming full-length album. \u201cIf you don\u2019t understand the answers, go back to the questions,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vusi Mahlasela will release a new album titled \u2018Questions and Answers\u2019 next month, accompanied by three advance singles.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8800,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_display_header_overlay":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[516],"tags":[2981,2752,2980,1103,2600],"class_list":["post-8798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-culture-lifestyle","tag-folk-music","tag-questions-and-answers","tag-silang-mabele","tag-south-african-music","tag-vusi-mahlasela","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Vusi Mahlasela Album \u2018Questions and Answers\u2019 Due Next Month<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"South African singer-songwriter Vusi Mahlasela will release his new album \u2018Questions and Answers\u2019 next month, led by three singles. 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