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‘We are looking at spiritual affinities and how these liberate and at the same time transcend the political’
CHRIS SEARLE speaks to South African pianist NDUDUZO MAKHATINI
Nduduzo Makhathini performing in Amsterdam on 28 October 2021
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NDUDUZO MAKHATINI is an extraordinary pianist. Born in Umgungundlovu, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa in 1982, his musical universe carries the spirits of his Zulu ancestry, engendered through his piano studies at Durban University of Technology and his doctoral research at the University of Stellenbosch.
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