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Basil Coetzee

Blessed in Cape Town’s notorious Area 6, Basil Coetzee worked his method up to acknowledgement as an integral player with Money Brand (later on to be Abdullah Ibrahim), with Mannenberg (named following the area to which Coetzee’s family members was forcibly removed by the federal government), and getting internationally known …

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BLK JKS

Founded in 2000 in Johannesburg, South Africa, the indie rock and roll work BLK JKS is definitely made up of guitarists Lindani Buthelezi and Mpumi Mcata, who was raised collectively in Johannesburg’s East Rand, and Soweto natives Molefi Makananise (bass) and Tshepang Ramoba (drums). BLK JKS produced their international documenting …

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Lira

Lerato “Lira” Molapo was created in Daveyton, South Africa, on March 14, 1979. After earning a competition for youthful performers and songwriters, Lira began executing live at age 16, performing both cover variations and self-penned tracks. In 2000 she was uncovered by musician and manufacturer Arthur Mafokate, who got her …

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Vic Oliver

b. Viktor Oliver Von Samek, 8 July 1898, Vienna, Austria, d. 15 August 1964, Johannesburg, South Africa. Delivered in to the aristocracy, Oliver examined classical violin before making a decision upon a profession in showbusiness. He spent time in America prior to making his house in Britain. In 1922 he …

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Simon Nkabinde Mahlathini

b. 1937, Natal, South Africa, d. 27 July 1999, Johannesburg, South Africa. Mahlathini (‘The Lion Of Soweto’) was the most recognized from the basso-profundo ‘groaners’ of dark South African vocal music – as well as the recognized originator of the mbaqanga sub-style referred to as mqashiyo (‘indestructible defeat’). As an …

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The Manhattan Brothers

The Manhattan Brothers was perhaps one of the most influential vocal groupings in the annals of South Africa’s music. Through the past due ’40s and ’50s, the group made an appearance frequently on South African tv and radio and inspired succeeding generations using their style of outfit, talk, attitude, and …

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Johnny Dyani

Johnny “Mbizo” Dyani was from a musical family and began taking part in the piano and singing in a normal choir young. At 13, he turned to bass, but would make use of both tone of voice and piano down the road. Chris McGregor employed him for the Blue Records …

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Graham Payn

b. 25 Apr 1918, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, d. 4 November 2005, Les Avants, Switzerland. Educated in South Africa and, from 1929, in Britain, Payn appeared in the stage within a London Palladium creation of Peter Skillet at age 13. He is at the West Result in Seated Pretty (1939), Up …

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Anton Fig

Drummer Anton Fig enjoyed a nightly dosage of popularity on NBC-TV’s popular NIGHT TIME With David Letterman. He was an integral part of the show’s studio room music group led by Paul Schaffer. Fig began playing drums at age group four. Later on he analyzed at Boston’s New Britain Conservatory …

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Abdullah Ibrahim

The melodic sounds of South Africa are fused using the improvisation of jazz as well as the technical proficiency of classical music simply by South Africa-born pianist Money Brand or, simply because he’s known as himself since converting to Islam in 1968, Abdullah Ibrahim. Since getting worldwide acclaim as an …

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