Caiphus Semenya

Previously self-exiled from Southern Africa in the 1960s, Caiphus Semenya has generated a good reputation like a musical director and composer, dealing with his wife, vocalist Letta Mbulu, aswell just like a number of additional exiled and semi-exiled African artists, such as for example Hugh Masekela and Miriam Makeba. Shifting to LA, Semenya discovered himself dealing with and composing for a wide selection of jazz and pop performers, including Lou Rawls, Nina Simone and Cannonball Adderley, his service with both jazz and African forms offering him well. Semenya’s LA stay also yielded a continuing cooperation with Quincy Jones, leading to Semenya offering African compositions for the ratings to Root base (both parts) and Steven Spielberg’s version of THE COLOUR Purple. He afterwards done the rating to Disney’s The Lion Ruler. After his go back to South Africa in 1990, he constructed ratings for Molo Seafood, Vicious Group and Gaba Mootho, three series broadcast with the South Africa Broadcasting Company. He is constantly on the work in the us, European countries and Africa in a number of capacities, including with Letta Mbulu as Caiphus & Letta. He’s an executive manufacturer for Quincy Jones’ Qradio website, that he also writes a normal column.