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UK born South African singer, composer and pianist Estelle Kokot has performed her music from the jazz clubs of South Africa to the Barbican and the Royal Festival Hall in London as well as various European Jazz festivals. She’s also one of the first women to have performed at Kippies Jazz Club at the Market Theatre Newtown, in the mid Eighties.

Estelle made her debut with South African Jazz super group Phambili and went on to guest regularly with South African world music stars Bayete, before joining Rush Hour in 1988. Not long after joining Rush Hour, they finalised a record deal with Umkhonto, part of the RPM Records group.

The album The Perfect Way, of which Kokot co-wrote the title track with Avzal Ismail, is available via Gallo Africa and has a few bonus tracks added. The album topped the charts on radio stations in South Africa and thereafter they performed the club and concert circuits nationally. Estelle has also taught extensively in the jazz vocal field focusing her energies on production and song writing techniques and in 1989 retained a post as vocal coach at The Pretoria Technikon’s Jazz department for five years.

In 1990 Estelle went solo and did a variety of projects which included doing a daring bass and vocal duo with John Rautenbach called “No Place To Hide.” Several full house runs at Kippies Jazz Club with Canadian Trumpeter Bruce Cassidy and South African Saxophonist Mike Makhalemele followed.
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