Bokani Dyer

Artist 1986 Cape Town connection

Pianist and composer born in Gaborone in 1986, the child of a South African exile family, who moved to South Africa as a child and studied jazz at the University of Cape Town, graduating in 2008. He won the Standard Bank Young Artist award for jazz in 2011 and plays in Shane Cooper's band Mabuta. His music runs from trio jazz to electronics.

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was born in

Gaborone (1986)

worked with

Shane Cooper (2018) Mabuta

was a member of

MABUTA (2018)

studied at

UCT South African College of Music (2008) he graduated that year

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