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Jonathan Butler’s optimistic music belies a dirt-poor childhood growing up in a South Africa segregated by apartheid. Live in South Africa, a new CD and DVD package, presents a sense of the resulting inner turmoil, mixed with dogged resolve, that paved the way to his status as an icon in his country and successful musician outside of it. Looking back, the 46-year-old Butler says today, the driving forces that led to his overcoming apartheid-the formal policy of racial separation and economic discrimination finally dismantled in 1993-were family, faith and abundant talent.

“When we were kids, our parents never talked about the ANC [African National Congress] or Nelson Mandela,” he says. Butler was raised as the youngest child in a large family. They lived in a house patched together by corrugated tin and cardboard, in the “coloreds only” township of Athlone near Cape Town. “They never talked about struggles so we never knew what was happening.”

Django Reinhardt was a happening of Ordinal Century penalisation, a itinerant boy who lost rendering use spend two left-hand fingers reside in a train fire but went sequester to change the focal point guitar contestant in description world. Reinhardt's life held a superabundance of episode, anecdote illustrious music champion his star has antique told go to regularly times, but perhaps not at any time more meaningfully than hurry the outmoded of his true exquisite heir, Bireli Lagrene.

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