Wake Up

WAKE UP

WAKE UP! Is an effervescent performance documentary. It's subject Lorraine Klassen, a passionate South African exile based in Montreal, has enraptured audiences with her township-jazz performances.

““Lorraine Klaasen can make Tina Turner look like a sleep walker”
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— TORONTO STAR, Toronto

WAKE UP! by filmmaker Jacques Holender, features the life story of Lorraine Klassen, whose artistic defiance against the South African apartheid regime, has evolved her performance beyond the borders of her home country to the international stage. Her music style of Township Jazz and soul with her exhilarating stage presence makes Lorraine Klassen one of the greatest South African performers today.

““It’s a natural kind of high, of loving to do what you do and to get pleasure out of it … I said, you should try it and you may like it.” ”

— Lorraine Klaasen