Shishani

Vocalist, guitarist and singer-songwriter Shishani is one of the newer members of the Splendor collective. This immensely creative musician holds roots in Namibia and Belgium, but grew up mainly in The Netherlands. In her work, she is always searching for ways of bringing these worlds together: whether she's playing with her quartet Namibian Tales (for which she traveled to Namibia multiple times to learn from the San people in the Kalahari desert); her unique all-female group Miss Catharsis (centralising women of colour); her band Shakuar (combining live electronics with traditional instruments) or the group Sisterhood (consisting of 11 female artists highlighting a shared heritage between Indonesia and Namibia through the Dutch colonial past).

Armed with a mesmerising voice and guitar playing, Shishani also carries a background in anthropology and musicology, enabling her to focus on socially engaged topics in her work as a powerfully activistic artist. She also initiatied several activistic art projects such as the multi-disciplinary stage Cinnamon Wednesdays (which was run by six young cross-cultural women) and ARTNAM (which aimed at promoting Namibian Arts nationally and internationally). And all of this is just the tip of iceberg of Shishani's activities, since she can also be found in a wide array of collaborations with artists from theater, dance and spoken word backgrounds. It's hard to keep up with Shishani's radiating initiatives, with which she performs nationally and internationally, and for which she was awarded multiple prizes and nominations, such as the Amsterdam Prize for the Arts in 2020.

In this intimate solo concert, Shishani embarks on an exploration of her voice. Her experience as singer-songwriter is now leading towards a more improvisational approach. Join this concert for a journey with vocal loops, improvisations and chants: with a voice as versatile as hers, she will effortlessly fill an entire concert.

Shishani - solo

Member concert
Splendor can only be the independent and free hub that it is, thanks to the members who support us. We pay them back with our specialty: music. Every year, all Splendor musicians play one concert that's free for this crucial group to whom Splendor owes its everyday existence. Combined with many other events, this means that our members have free entrance to about 80 concerts a year for €9,99 p/m (and €4,99 p/m for minima and students!) – and receive a discount for all other concerts. Pretty good deal, right?

The members enable Splendor to remain independent, which is the only way to secure real freedom in programming, experimentation, risk-taking and the promotion of young, upcoming artists. If you can think of another place without a central programming, where last-minute concerts can be planned any moment, where there is no backstage and artists and audience are constantly mingling and hanging out at the bar, where mysterious creative outbursts can be presented that are often labeled 'too risky' elsewhere, and that still guarantees high quality by unleashing the best of The Netherlands' music scene in this creative playground – you get a free membership!

Would you rather just visit this concert without becoming a member? Feel free to buy a ticket below, and you're still more than welcome in the club house!