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Angel face: painting Bheki Mseleku
20 Apr 2021
Angelic feel: The artwork for the album Best of Bheki Mseleku (above) translated perfectly onto facebrick for Justin Nomad’s mural in Braamfontein. (Delwyn Verasamy)
When The Orbit opened up, I happened to know the owner, Aymeric Péguillan. At its height I played there with Uhadi, Carlo Mombelli and the Prisoners of Strange, Language 12 and Bombshelter Beast, among others. Péguillan knew Bheki Mseleku was the most iconic and most neutral person. “Neutral” because he was so internationally acclaimed and yet so local, being from Durban.
I was studying music at the Manhattan School of Music in New York when I was introduced to a lot of his music. The lecturers opened up that world for me. He was a major icon, and as I started learning some of his repertoire, I realised just why he was so revered.