Music has been the mission of pianist Andile Yenana's life since he was born in King William's Town in the Eastern Cape in 1968.
"My dad, Felix Thamsanqa Yenana, had a huge collection of music, ranging from jazz to Motown, all the forms of urban black music.
My brother also had discs, and I grew up listening to their records and singing along."
His father's memories, as well as his music, helped inspire Andile's career.
Yenana senior had been a student at St Peters College in Rosettenville, a school with a strong church-music tradition, where fellow students had included trumpeter Hugh Masekela.
(Andile, too, sang in a choir during his schooldays.) "Already, around nine, my old man had opened my eyes to the world of the arts. Because of that heritage, there's no way I could be older in this genre of jazz." When Andile began learning piano, it was with a mission.
"When I picked up that instrument in Zwelitsha Township, it was to play ja
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