Caiphus Semenya

Caiphus Semenya is a South African jazz musician and composer from Sophiatown who began his career in the 1950s, working in jazz, Afro-jazz and later in film and orchestral composition. His music blends traditional South African rhythms and choral harmonies with jazz arrangements and brass instrumentation, and over decades his work evolved to encompass larger ensemble and soundtrack pieces that reflect South Africa's cultural and social landscape.