Vuyo Sotashe / Chris Pattishall Duo

In this highly-anticipated collaboration, South African vocalist Vuyo Sotashe and American pianist/composer Chris Pattishall come together for an intimate and soulful set of duets. Mainstays of the NYC music scene over the last decade, Vuyo and Chris have each contributed to a wide range of projects spanning jazz, gospel, theater and film.

Together they make music with a hushed vulnerability, a quiet invocation of community in the midst of turbulent times. In a program that will range from American masters Duke Ellington and Nina Simone to South African Xhosa hymns and Stevie Wonder, Sotashe and Pattishall bring the healing power of music to the forefront.

Their debut single They Say I Look Like God - a haunting rendition of the Dave Brubeck/Louis Armstrong collaboration - was released on October 10, 2023. By turns plaintive and rousing, the duo navigates a complex emotional and spiritual terrain with disarming directness.

Vuyo and Chris are currently NY Voices Fellows at Joe’s Pub in New York City. The duo are featured on Son Lux’s Alternate Forms, a collaborative reimagining of the band’s album Lanterns. Vuyo’s and Chris’s contribution - an otherworldly rendition of the anthemic song Easy - was described by Son Lux frontman Ryan Lott as “so deft and surgically spare it’s bracing - when I first heard it, I felt caught in slow motion.”