Reza Khota

Artist Cape Town connection

Guitarist born in Johannesburg and now based in Cape Town, classically trained at Wits, who won the national classical guitar competition in 1998. He leads his own quartet and plays in Mabuta and in Kesivan and the Lights, and has worked with the artists William Kentridge and Nicholas Hlobo.

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was born in

Johannesburg

worked with

Shane Cooper (2018) Mabuta, and the quartet before it

lived in

Cape Town

was a member of

Kesivan and the Lights (2014) including the Carnegie Hall concert
MABUTA (2018)

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