Artist Name: McCoy Mrubata
Genre:
South African Jazz
Country:
South Africa
Artist Bio:
McCoy Mrubata is one of South Africa's finest saxophonists, versatile on the tenor, soprano and alto saxophones as well as the flute, and has gained recognition internationally as well.
The Nordic Black Theatre in Oslo invited McCoy Mrubata to perform in three musicals, two of which were based on the life of Bob Marley. The third, "Beyond the Blues" (The John Coltrane Story), ran for two months and saw McCoy playing the lead role.
When he's not recording, producing, and writing music for TV documentaries or programs, he heads his own very popular band, McCoy and Friends.
McCoy also features on horns as part of the supergroup, The Sheer All Stars, together with Paul Hanmer, Sipho Gumede, Errol Dyers and Frank Paco, a collaboration that resulted in two albums, Indibano and Live @ the Blues Room. Look out for the recently released Sheer All Stars album, Dance with Me, featuring McCoy, Louis Mhlanga, Sipho Gumede, Frank Paco and Wessel van Rensburg.
McCoy's Face the Music won the 2003 SAMA Award in the category of Best South African Traditional Album.
— Courtesy Calabash Music
