Wendy Oldfield is a multi-award winning South African Female singer, songwriter, and producer with a legendary musical career which began in the late 8O's and continues today. Never one to shy away from U-turns in her lengthy career with a “back to basics” approach that isn’t shy of warmth, mood and feel.
WENDY OLDFIELD BIOGRAPHY
Wendy Oldfield has been a preformer and creator of beautifull music since 1983. She first rocketed into the spotlight with rock group "The Sweatband" and had a number of hits including the ver popular "This Boy" wich charted on all major radio stations.
In 1989 Wendy Oldfield branched out into a solo career and released her first solo album callee "Beautiful World". This album saw a solid number of hits for a debut solo artist such as "Acid Rain", "Miracle", "Don't Stop Believing" and Living In A Real World".
The next few years Wendy Oldfield's style grew and changed, ever consistent with dynamic lyrical content, also keeping it real. "Ruby", "Pale Blue Dot", 'Holy Water" and "Supernova" followed over the next 20 years. Songs like "Holy Water', "Sun", "New Dress" and "Burden" became huge favorites at all her live performances nationally.
She was also vocals/percussion of "Mondetta", as superstar world music group that released only one album, "Small World" before Gito Baloi's sad and untimely death.
Wendy Oldfield has been nominated for a total of 7 SAMA Awards of which she has won 2 for "Best Female Vocalist" and also "Best pop Album" with 2 more for her children's albums "Singalong Kidz Vol 1" and "Singalong Kids Vol 2".
Production became large part of Wendy Oldfield's career and she produced many featured film soundtracks and theme tunes for local film producers like "Lean Schuster's Sweet And Short", "Zulu On My Stoop" and many Wildlife documentaries as well as Discoverie's "Living With Tigers".
Over those 3 decades of her career Wendy Oldfield has danced, acted, arranged, produced, musically directed, orchestrated large choral compositions. She worked with "Old Mutual Choral Encounters", "Toyota" sponsored and raced kyalami in the "Celebrity Challenge" for a couple of times. Wendy Oldfield also presented Travel documentaries in Costa Rica Guatemala and Venezuela "Wish You Were Here for SABC local broadcasting company.
She also released a number of music videos "New Dress, "Home" and collaborated with the cream of South African's best talents.
Jabu Kanyile Bayete
Johnny Clegg
Busi Mshlongo
Robin Auld
Tu Nokwe
Faith Kykana
Cindy Alter
Vicky Samason
Irit Noble
Lionel Bastos
Louis Mhlanga
Themba Mkizwe
Ray Phiri
Brenda Fasi
Tim Parr
Theo Crouse
James Phillips
Thembi Mttshali
Cedric Samson
In the year 2000 Wendy Oldfield took an another project, having children. She is he proud mother of 2 Boys "Luka" and "Jude" followed by a beautiful girl "Lilah Blu".
Wendy Oldfield left Johannesburg and moved with her husband Ray and family to a farm in Wilderness Western Cape where they practiced living according to their philosophies and raising the kids. "Reminder to the world" a profound song and video released "Into The World Just Because".
During this time Wendy Oldfield produced and wrote 2 children albums, "Under African Skies" and "Sing Along One", "Sing Along Two" and "In The Womb"
She arranged and orchestrated the choral encounters choir series for old mutual.
Wendy Oldfield is now divorced and still has many friends involved for many years with artist Hermann Niebuhr to name but a few.
The year 2020 saw the release of her latest album called "Salt", a brand new release with newly signed managing company Just Records at the helm.
Wendy Oldfield preforms quite prolifically all around South Africa sending her shine and authenticity into the world, followed by masses on inspirational messages left on her Facebook page by fans.
From the start of her solo career in Nineteen Eighty Eight (1988), Wendy Oldfield released Six (6) solo albums with many hits including:
Acid Rain - Carting on all local radio stations in South Africa
Holy Water
Miracle
Sun
Don't Stop Believing
New Dress
Home
Big Feeling
Albums
1991 - Beautiful World
1995 - Ruby
1998 - Duwayo
1999 - On a Pale Blue Dot
2002 - Holy Water
2008 - The Collection
2009 - Singalong Kidz
2013 - Supernova
2013 - Children Of Africa Vol1
2020 - Children Of Africa Vol 2
2021 - Salt
Training Programs
Wendy Oldfield has a Three Sixty (360) degree Singing and Mentoring program that includes:
Songwriting
Vocal Awareness
Singing Techniques
Personal Coaching
Breathing Techniques
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