Diane Coetzer
Diane Coetzer is an award-winning music and entertainment journalist based in Johannesburg. After starting her journalism career as a political journalist for publications like South, Diane moved into writing about music and has been the South African correspondent for Billboard magazine in the US for more than a decade. She is currently a specialist features writer for several print publications including the Sunday Times Magazine. Diane also frequently writes biographies and liner notes for a broad cross section of South African recording artists and consults to the wider music industry. She has been a judge at the South African Music Awards for 14 years. In 2006 Diane won the Arts and Culture Journalist of the Year in the Nedbank Arts and Culture Trust Awards.