Errol Dyers

Artist 1952–2017 Cape Town connection

Self-taught Cape Town guitarist, born in 1952, who put the goema beat of the carnival into jazz guitar. He played with Abdullah Ibrahim, Basil Coetzee, Robbie Jansen and Winston Mankunku, and Mason quotes him on how musicians turned "Mannenberg" into a protest anthem. He died of emphysema in Cape Town in 2017.

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worked with

Abdullah Ibrahim including the album Mantra Mode
Basil Coetzee one of Coetzee's closest musical collaborators
Robbie Jansen including Jansen's late 1980s bands
Winston Mankunku Ngozi

belongs to the genre

Goema

lived in

Cape Town he taught himself playing on the city's streets

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