Soweto virtuosos embrace 'white people' music

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'When I play it helps me to forget about the situation I am in.'

"When I play it helps me to forget about the situation I am in," says the 16-year-old South African.

Under apartheid, musical opportunities for children of the black majority were rare as the regime considered it a domain reserved for whites. His fingering is smooth, his right wrist supple and his tone confident - not the strident sounds typical of beginners.

 

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