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Palesa Malieloa won the SAMRO Overseas Scholarships Competition for Singers 2019 in Western Art Music. She is accompanied by Elna van der Merwe on Piano.

Palesa Malieloa, who hails from Kroonstad, obtained her BA in Music and Society at the North-West University’s School of Music and Conservatory Potchefstroom Campus. She has a number of past tributes under her belt, including winning first prize in the ATKV-Muziqanto singing competition in 2016 and the UNISA National Voice Competition in 2017. She was also a finalist in the Opera Crown Tbilisi International Voice Competition. More recently, Palesa competed in the Stanislaw Moniuszko and the Mirjam Helin International Voice competitions. Palesa is currently focussing on her Master of Performance studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Tans Köln, under Professor Josef Protschka.