Vusi Mahlasela

Vusi Mahlasela was born in Lady Selbourne, Pretoria in 1965 and grew up in Mamelodi, a township famed as a cradle of culture which has produced many of Black South Africa’’s greatest musicians and writers.
Vusi can’t remember a time when he wasn’t singing as a child... "I’m sure I learned to sing before I could talk" he says. Listening-in his grandmother’s shebeen-to men singing ‘ingomabusuku or ‘songs of the night?
The young Vusi began to teach himself to play his home-made guitar, a remarkable instrument made of tin cans and fishing line.
Formal guitar lessons began when he entered high school, where he set about putting together a vocal group of his own.