Tumi Tefu  is a 32 year old solo acoustic singer/songwriter. Born in Soweto and raised in Spruitview in the Eastrand, Gauteng. Behind the music she is the daughter of Sibongile and Steven Tefu. She realised her talent for music at an early age while she was in Dinwiddie primary school where she began writing her on songs. She went on to study Art at the National School of Arts from 1998 to 2002.  It was there where she realise that her real passion is music and thats where she seriously started writing songs as she also taught herself how to play the guitar. It was also while she was studying there that she started performing. Her first performance was in 2001 live on Yfm with Dj Bondo at The Festival of Fame, an annual festival at the school. After that she performed at the 2001 International Poetry Festival at the Windybrow Theatre in Hillbrow. Sharing a stage with the likes of Don Mattera, one of South Africa’s well known poets. She also performed at the 2001 Women’s Art’s Festival at the Market Theatre in Newtown, where she opened for Jazz artist Judith Sephuma and Tamara Dey. From then on she went on to perform at various book launches and poetry sessions.Musicians that inspire her are Michael Jackson, Sade, Tracy Chapman, Counting Crows and The Cranberries to name a few...