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South African-born, London-based Kristian Bezuidenhout is normally ranked among the best period-instrument key pad players of his era and could very well be most widely known for his fortepiano interpretations of music by Mozart. Certainly, and from 2010, he continues to be involved with a project using the Harmonia Mundi …

Possibly the least conventional group to emerge in South Africa in the 1970s was Juluka. The brainchild of English-born Light anthropologist Johnny Clegg and traditional Zulu musician Sipho Mchunu, Juluka provided an electrifying dance music that mixed the very best of African and Traditional western designs. Clegg scandalized the Light …