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Johnny Clegg

Despite being most closely associated with South Africa and its music and culture, specifically as an advocate for multi-ethic integration, Jonathan Clegg was actually born in England. He lived with his Zimbabwean mother Muriel in the town of Bacup, Lancashire. His English father Dennis left the family when he was a baby. When he was seven-years-old, having spent some time in Israel his mother got remarried to a South African reporter. His stepfather took the eight-year-old Clegg into the Townships where the elder man taught drums. The family later immigrated to Zambia - a dem...