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- Sep 21
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10 Hours, 8 Tracks, 1 Lifetime: Apiwe Bubu’s 20-year journey to his debut album
On Thursday, 31 July, Apiwe Bubu dropped his debut solo album Reflections of a Sound Mind — an eight-track collection of piano compositions that has been two decades in the making.
It was a long road that saw Bubu traveling to Boston, Valencia and Los Angeles before coming home to record and release his first album at the age of 41.
Born in Mthatha in the Eastern Cape, Apiwe is the second of five children. His early years were spent in his birthplace before he moved to Johannesburg at the age of 12 for boarding school. It was there, amid the piano rooms tucked into every quad, that he first started “twiddling” with the keys and discovered a passion for music.
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