Gloria Bosman

Gloria Bosman ( – 14 March 2023) was a South African jazz singer who began her career singing in a church choir in Soweto.

Early life Bosman was born and raised in Mofolo and Pimville Soweto in Johannesburg. She sang in her church choir before performing at the Market Theatre in 1993, gaining a scholarship to the Pretoria Technikon to study opera. In 2001 she released her second album The Many Faces of Gloria Bosman with Sheer Sound. She produced and composed most of the songs on this album, but also collaborated with Paul Hanmer. He wrote and co-produced two songs on the album. The album earned her nominations for Best South African Artist and The Most Promising Female Artist at the 2001 Kora All Africa Awards and another South African Music Award nomination for Best Jazz Vocal Album. She joined the theatrical production African Songbook at the Artscape Theatre Centre in 2010. She has also performed in Porgy & Bess and the Mandela Trilogy. She has toured the UK and was nominated for the Naledi Awards. She performed with Hugh Masekela in Songs of Migration at the Market Theatre and Joburg Theatre in 2011 and 2013.

Writing In 2020, she contributed a chapter to the award-winning book, Joburg Noir, edited by Niq Mhlongo.

In March 2023, her family announced that she died following a short illness.

Discography Tranquillity, 1999 The Many Faces of Gloria Bosman, 2002 Stop & Think, 2003 Nature's Dance, 2004 Emzini, 2006 Letters from the Heart vol. 1, 2010