South African composer, musician, and husband of singer Letta Mbulu.

In the late sixties, he settled in Los Angeles on account of the apartheid policies back home and teamed up with people like Harry Belafonte and Quincy Jones as well as compatriots Hugh Masekela, Miriam Makeba and Jonas Gwangwa.

In the early nineties the couple returned to South Africa, after 26 years of self-imposed exile.