Cape Town Data
The South African Music Graph
See who taught whom, who played what and where, on one map of South African music.
See how South African musicians, songs and places are connected. Every connection below is sourced, and every node leads to what we know about it.
The map grew out of our article An Interactive Network of Cape Jazz Musicians.
The network
1 node on the map.
Everyone and everything on the map
Artist
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Kyle Shepherd
Cape Town pianist and film composer born in 1987, who started on violin and moved to piano at fifteen. He was mentored by Zim Ngqawana and trained partly around Abdullah Ibrahim's M7 school, where his mother taught, and he leads a trio with Shane Cooper and Jonno Sweetman. He won the Standard Bank Young Artist award for jazz in 2014 and scored Noem My Skollie.
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