ESINAM & Sibusile Xaba (BE)

ESINAM & Sibusile Xaba is a meeting of nomadic, wandering and kindred spirits in music. Both artists draw upon their ancestry: Belgian-Ghanaian (ESINAM) and Kwazulu Natal-South Africa (Sibusile Xaba) through a unique connection, at deep artistic and spiritual levels they use rhythms and grooves to translate stories to the audience.

In 2018, ESINAM discovered Sibusile Xaba during his European (solo) tour. Enchanted by his musical energy and craftsmanship, she invited him to be a vocal guest on the track ‘Flowing River’ from her debut album ‘Shapes in Twilights of infinity’. When asked at the first WOMAD Festival in South Africa if she wanted to collaborate with a ‘local artist’, she didn’t have to think twice. In October 2022, ESINAM and Sibusile turn into a cosmically poetic duo playing Afro-Roots-Electro with a clear nod to spiritual jazz.