Jonathan Butler: Breaking Barriers with Music in Apartheid South Africa
In 1975, a young Jonathan Butler stood on a stage in South Africa to accept a Sarie Award, the country’s equivalent of the Grammys. What made this moment extraordinary was not simply that Butler, a teenager from Cape Town, had already captured the nation’s ears with his soulful voice and guitar playing. It was that he was the first Black artist to win the award in a room filled entirely […]
