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Abdullah Ibrahim dies. · Spoken News

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Spoken News. I'm a computer. Abdullah Ibrahim Dies
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  Abdullah Ibrahim, previously known as Dollar Brand, was a South
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  African pianist and composer. His music reflects many of the
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  musical influences of his childhood in the multicultural port areas
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  of Cape Town, ranging from traditional African songs to the
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  gospel of the Ame Church and ragas to more modern
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  jazz and other Western styles. Ibrahim is considered the leading
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  figure in the subgenre of Cape Jazz. Within jazz, his
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  music particularly reflects the influence of Thelonious Monk and Duke Ellington.
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  He is known especially for Mannenberg, a jazz piece that
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  became a notable anti apartheid anthem during the apartheid era.
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  In the nineteen sixties, Ibrahim moved to New York City and,
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  apart from a brief return to South Africa in the
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  nineteen seventies, remained in exile until the early nineteen nineties.
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  Over the decades, he toured the world extensively, appearing at
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  major venues, either as a solo artist or playing with
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  other renowned musicians including Max Roach, Carlos Ward, and Randy Weston,
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  as well as collaborating with classical orchestras in Europe with
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  his wife, the jazz singer Satima Beyer. Benjamin Ibrahim was
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  father to two children, including the New York underground rapper
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  Jean Gray. That's it for now. See the episode notes
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