Kyle Shepherd

Artist 1987 Cape Town connection

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.

Connections

was born in

Cape Town (1987)

worked with

Kesivan Naidoo (2015) Naidoo held the drum chair in the trio
Shane Cooper Cooper plays bass in his trio

belongs to the genre

Cape jazz

was influenced by

Abdullah Ibrahim Shepherd follows Ibrahim and reworks the same sources

lived in

Cape Town

was a member of

Kyle Shepherd Trio he leads it

was taught by

Zim Ngqawana mentor and friend until his death in 2011

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