The piano musical genius and anti-apartheid activist Abdullah Ibrahim died in Germany on Monday.
Born in Cape Town, a melting pot of cultural influences, on October 9 1934 and christened Adolph Johannes Brand, the young Dollar Brand, as he became known, was exposed to American jazz, township jive, Cape Malay music and classical music.
Out of this blend he developed his distinctive style: the harmonies and musical vocabulary that are inimitably his own.
