A PJ Powers video production – PJ Powers with Dozi – I am the sadness:
South African Artist: PJ Powers with Dozi
Track 05 off her CD ‘Destiny’ (2013)
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Penelope Jane Dunlop (also known as ‘PJ Powers’ and ‘Thandeka’) is a South African musician. She has recorded numerous albums and is well known for her UK chart hit ‘World In Union‘ (with Ladysmith Black Mambazo) in 1995. The song reached no 47 on the UK Singles Chart. She performed the song live at the opening of the ‘1995 Rugby World Cup’ in Cape Town, South Africa for a worldwide television audience. In 2009 her recording of ‘World In Union’ was featured in the Academy Award-nominated film, ‘Invictus’.
Penelope Jane was born in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal on 16 July 1963. PJ’s first musical group was an all-girl band called ‘Pantha’. About a year later she joined ‘Jimslip’ which in time became the famous South African group ‘Hotline’. She was the lead singer for this rock band which was formed in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1980. The band changed their style to Afro-rock in 1983. ‘Hotline’ disbanded in 1987 after which PJ Powers pursued a solo career.
In the 1990s her music took on a more Afro-pop focus, finding a receptive audience in the black market who gave her the nickname ‘Thandeka’ meaning ‘The loved one’.
Some of her biggest hits like ‘Feel so strong’ (a 1983 duet with Steve Kekana) she wrote herself, as well as ‘You’re so good to me’ (1982), ‘There is an answer’ (1986) and ‘Home to Africa’ (1985). One of her biggest hits (with Hotline) was ‘Jabulani’, which was written by Hotline’s bass guitarist, George van Dyk.
PJ has shared the stage with Eric Clapton, Joan Armatrading, Hugh Masekela, Divine Divas, Lord Richard Attenborough, Richard E. Grant, Sibongile Khumalo, Janet Suzman and other big names. P.J. sang for Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom, King Juan Carlos of Spain and Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands. She sang at the inauguration of President Nelson Mandela and at the 1995 Rugby World Cup.
Honours and awards:
2000 Nelson Mandela presented Powers with a commemorative limited edition gold coin.
Appointed a South African Tourism Ambassador.
June 2003 the ‘Institute for Justice and Reconciliation’ honored her and singer Sibongile Khumalo with their prestigious annual award for promoting reconciliation by ‘singing people together’.
September 2003 food chain ‘Pick ‘n Pay’ nominated her as one of their ‘Stars of Charity’ for having ‘made a difference in uplifting the youth of South Africa’.
In July 2013 PJ Powers was honored with a ‘Living Legends award’.
PJ Powers has been extensively involved with the ‘Reach For a Dream Foundation’ as well as the ‘Hamlet Foundation’. She was commissioned by the President’s office to write and perform a song for the ‘Children’s Rights Commission’.
In 2004 she was voted 93rd in the ‘Top 100 Great South Africans’.
Her latest album ‘Destiny’ was released at the end of 2013. The prolific song writer has once again written songs reflective of her life today. It is an authentic and beautiful album.
Her biography ‘Here I Am’, as told to Marianne Thamm, was released by ‘Penguin books’ in August 2014.
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