Hilton Schilder

Artist Cape Town connection

Cape Town pianist from the Schilder family of musicians, son of Tony Schilder and nephew of Chris Schilder. He supplied the jazz side of the Genuines in the 1980s and played in Robbie Jansen's bands. Mason quotes him remembering Jansen talking to crowds about rising up while "Mannenberg" played.

Connections

worked with

Mac McKenzie the Genuines and later the Goema Captains of Cape Town
Robbie Jansen Schilder played in his late 1980s bands

belongs to the genre

Goema

was a member of

The Genuines keyboards, the jazz side of the band

Did you know?

The Genuines called their jazzy kind of rock ghoema, and the dictionary now records that as a sense of the word.

Martin writes that the Genuines, led by Mac McKenzie with Hilton Schilder and often Robbie Jansen, named their music ghoema and recorded Mr Mac and the Genuines for Shifty Records in 1987. The Dictionary of South African English lists that 1980s style as a second sense of the word.

Music 1987 Cape Town