Top 7 Things You Didn’t Know About Nakhane Touré

Nakhane Touré (Born Nakhane Mahlakahlaka; 1988) is a South African musician, singer and songwriter. His musical style spans over songs rooted in African indigenous music and indie rock.

Here’s a list of things you may have or may not have known about Nakhane Touré:

1. Nakhane Toure’s debut album, Brave Confusion, couldn’t be more appropriately titled. Here is a black Christian male singing love songs about other men in an environment that hasn’t exactly been welcoming towards gay people. 

2. Nakhane’s album is an eclectic hybrid of genres and sounds that work surprisingly well together. Think Frank Ocean meets Radiohead meets Antony and the Johnsons with a little Prince and David Bowie thrown in for good measure.

3. Nakhane was born in a small town in the Eastern Cape called Alice, a glorified village really

4. In primary school Nakhane studied the trombone classically, while playing other instruments like the piano, steel drums, drums, marimbas, and then later the guitar.

5. Nakhane’s single was written about a guy Christoper he met online.

6. Nakhane worked at a gospel music store and found it to be really depressing because he was still underground about his sexuality.

7. But after six years of jumping back and forth about his sexuality and trying to fight the fact that he was gay, Nakhane just woke up one morning suddenly feeling better about who he was. It was then that he took a conscious decision to stop denying who he was and is and live openly about it.