Tu nokwe biography of michael

Bhekumuzi Hyacinth Mseleku was born in Durban in 1955.  A self-taught pianist, saxophonist, guitarist, composer and arranger, he was born to a musician father who did not want any of his children to follow a music career.

His father owned a piano that he kept locked, but Mseleku’s mother would unlock it for her son when his father was away.

Tu nokwe biography of michael

Eventually, his father, Mseleku Senior, would come to appreciate his son’s love for music and allow him to play the piano. Unfortunately, the piano was chopped up to make firewood one winter.

In 1975, Mseleku began his musical career when he played the organ for the band Spirits Rejoice.

Feeling restricted by the apartheid system in South Africa, Mseleku left the country in 1977 and settled in Botswana for a while.  He later moved to London before moving to Stockholm where he tried to infiltrate the Jazz industry.

He eventually returned to London and made a breakthrough when he began playing the piano at