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
2 nodes on the map.
Everyone and everything on the map
Artist
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Black Coffee
Nkosinathi Maphumulo, born in Umlazi near Durban in 1976, who lost the use of his left arm in a car accident during the celebrations of Nelson Mandela's release in 1990. He studied jazz in Durban, came through the Red Bull Music Academy in 2003 and turned South African house into a global export. Subconsciously won a Grammy in 2022.
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Kesivan Naidoo
Drummer born in East London in 1979, who studied jazz at the University of Cape Town's South African College of Music and won the Standard Bank Young Artist award for jazz in 2009. Bheki Mseleku shaped his playing, and he worked with Hotep Idris Galeta, Winston Mankunku Ngozi and Miriam Makeba. He leads Kesivan and the Lights.
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