Abdullah Ibrahim 90th Birthday Celebration at 92nd Street Y

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World Music Institute and The 92nd Street Y, New York are proud to present the 90th birthday celebration of a true living legend, South African jazz pioneer Abdullah Ibrahim.

Recognized as South Africa’s most distinguished pianist, Ibrahim is a world renowned master musician, who's performed and recorded with everyone from Hugh Masekela and Miriam Makeba to Duke Ellington, Max Roach, John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman. He made history as a musician, and also bore witness to the injustice of the apartheid regime, both at home and in exile. His anti-apartheid anthem “Mannenberg” has come to be regarded as an unofficial national anthem in South Africa, and when he performed at Nelson Mandela’s inauguration, Mandela referred to him as “our Mozart”.