Zim Ngqawana

When Zim Ngqawana led a group of 100 drummers, singers, and dancers at Nelson Mandela's inauguration in 1994, he heralded a new era.

Zim (saxophonist, flautist, composer, and arranger) performs music grounded in his South African roots and draws on influences ranging from South Africa’s folk and rural traditions to Indian and western classical music, world music and the avant-garde.