About Us

CWELL is a multi-Media Independent  music and media company founded in Johannesburg by South African music sensation C’nky Siwela. The company is devoted to the development and empowerment of talented artists and Dj’s in all African music genres. It represents a cream of fast rising young talents including KAT MAKS, Hammanskraal Joyful Sounds, Tsa Lapeng Youth Jazz Orchestra and CSFi Flute Ensemble, Thapelo Lephoto. 


Our services include securing TV, Radio, Print and Online media coverage. We also specialises in Artists relations, music production, publishing, merchandising, printing, events coordination, promotions, tour management, artists bookings, social media marketing, TV/Radio music programming, talkshow and reality show productions.

ABOUT THE FOUNDER: C’NKY SIWELA

C’nky Siwela was born on December 11, 1983 in Stinkwater, South Africa. He was raised in a musical and spiritual family. His grandfather was a singer, flautist, and a pastor of an Evangelical Church. As a child, C’nky became very passionate about music and learning multiple instruments, which led him to conducting a band later in his life.  In 2002, he joined Tsa Lapeng Music Initiative to better enhance his instrumental capabilities. That very same year He became a beneficiary of a scholarship and was offered a mentorship by music educationists Mr. Michael Masote and his wife Sheila Masote from ACOSA’s Soweto Music Conservatoire. In Johannesburg, C’nky studied music theory and recorder with Vanessa Vander Berg. From 2005 to 2008, ACOSA offered him another scholarship to study the flute with well-respected flautist instructors, Helen Vosloo and Anne Marie Muller.

 

 In 2009, he joined University of South Africa’s Music Foundation (UNISA) as a scholarship participant and flute tutor at Tsa Lapeng Music Conservatoire, based right near his hometown in Stinkwater, South Africa. Between 2009 and 2013, C’nky played flute for Soweto Youth Orchestra, UNISA Music Foundation Symphony Orchestra and CAFCA Big Band. In 2011, He traveled with (CAFCA) Big Band to participate at the Jazz Education Network in New Orleans, New York, and Chicago. In 2014, Siwela accompanied Limpopo Youth Orchestra (LYO) to Dakar, Senegal in celebration of 20 years of democracy freedom and paying tribute to former late president Nelson Mandela. In April 2015, he brought his talented flute student, Joel Baloyi, to receive flute master classes with Professor Marc Grauwels in Wavre, Belgium. Siwela has also attended flute master classes with the talented Francesca Canali (Austria) and Bruno Meirs (UK). C’nky Siwela currently serves as the Artistic and Educational Director at Tsa Lapeng Music Initiative, C’nky Siwela Flute Institute (CSFI) and Hammanskraal Joyful Sounds.