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Mandela Documentary: Where can I find a choir?!

Tandis Jenhudson

12 years, 6 months ago - Tandis Jenhudson

Hi Shooters

I'm pitching a song for a Nelson Mandela feature documentary. By all accounts, this could be the definitive Mandela documentary when it is released.

I'm looking to include a choir singing a few phrases in South African (dialect TBC, but I'm hoping that if sung as a choir, and with some direction from a native speaker, any deficiencies of pronounciation etc can be minimised. It might actually include English as well.

I'm thinking no more than 4 lines.

At worst, the song will get rejected and the choir and I will get very little out of it, apart from an experience and a song to keep! At best, it will be included on the documentary, win big awards, and the choir will (if it gets to that stage!) have it's profile raised and hopefully make some money! I'm expecting somewhere in between, but I'm confident the song will be well-received. I'd like to record in a church.

So if there's anyone out there who sings in a choir, knows a choir, goes to church and has some connection to a choir (African or not) then please get in touch.

At the moment it's at the pitching stage so there's no money for me or anyone else involved, but it's all about opportunities and potential!

Thanks

Tandis

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Tom Green

12 years, 6 months ago - Tom Green

I'd imagine you're already into possibly difficult PC territory if the phrases are sung by non-SA/African singers. So I'd go looking for a local, probably Baptist/Pentecostal church which serves ex-pat or SA origin population and see if they're up for it. With a signed release that acknowledges you hand a proportion of any broadcast royalties over to the church, if you get lucky. You're far more likely to be successful if you use native speakers, their tonality will be completely different from non native speakers and it will sound 'genuine' because it is ...

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