Wela Kapela productions A STAR IS BORN -THE RISE AND FALL OF JUDY GARLAND have played to sell-out audience at the Umtiza and Hilton Festivals and received a Standard Bnk Ovation Award at the National Arts Festival in Makhanda. Garlands’ career began at the age of two and a half and at the age of 13, she signed her first movie contract. The Wizard of Oz earned her an Oscar at 17… by 47 she was dead. How did Hollywood’s brightest star dim so fast? Garland was Hollywood’s queen of the comebacks. Whenever her career and personal life hit rock bottom, she would stage a spectacular comeback and again hit the big time. The multi-Grammy-winning recording, of her Carnegie Hall performance, is still regarded as the single greatest live album by a singer of popular American standards. A Star is Born is the Judy Garland story told thru song.