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Bheki Mseleku (Bhekumuzi Hyacinth Mseleku) was born on 3 March, 1955 in Durban, South Africa, is a South African jazz musician (1955–2008). Discover Bheki Mseleku's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 53 years old?

Popular As Bhekumuzi Hyacinth Mseleku
Occupation Professional musician, composer
Age 53 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 3 March 1955
Birthday 3 March
Birthplace Durban, South Africa
Date of death 9 September, 2008
Died Place London, United Kingdom
Nationality South Africa

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1955

Bhekumuzi Hyacinth Mseleku, generally known as Bheki Mseleku (3 March 1955 – 9 September 2008 ), was a jazz musician from South Africa.

He was a pianist, saxophonist, guitarist, composer and arranger who was entirely self-taught.

Mseleku's father was a musician and teacher, and a Cambridge University music graduate, who had religious beliefs that prevented his children from ready access to the family's upright piano in case any of them should pursue something as "devilish" as music.

His mother gave him the keys while his father was away, but the piano ended up as firewood one winter's evening.

During his childhood, Mseleku suffered the loss of the upper joints of two fingers in his right hand from a go-karting accident.

1975

Mseleku started his musical career in Johannesburg in 1975 as an electric organ player for an R&B band, Spirits Rejoice.

1977

After performing at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1977, Mseleku settled in Botswana for a time, moved to London, England, in the late 1970s, and made an attempt to settle into the jazz scene in Stockholm from 1980 to 1983, but then returned to London.

1987

It was not until 1987 that Mseleku made his debut at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club, playing piano unaccompanied by other musicians, with a tenor saxophone in his lap.

1991

His 1991 album Celebration, which featured Courtney Pine among a number of British players as guests, was nominated for a Mercury Music Prize.

After this, he was taken up by Verve for several albums.

The first of these featured a number of American players, including Joe Henderson, Abbey Lincoln and Elvin Jones.

1994

He explained in a 1994 South Bank Show dedicated to him that this was wholly due to the restricted health care available to Black South Africans under Apartheid.

He died in his London flat, having spent most of his last years back in South Africa, but without finding an outlet for his skills there; his home was burgled in 1994, which affected him deeply, due to the loss of the mouthpiece that John Coltrane had used for the recording of A Love Supreme, given to him by Alice Coltrane at Newport.

Over the two years prior to his death, Mseleku had established a new band in London, and had made several well received appearances around the country.

1996

In 1996, Mseleku won a KORA All Africa Music Award in the category "Best Instrumentalist (Southern Afrika)".

2003

With Home at Last (2003), the last record released during his lifetime, Mseleku, "a self-confessed 'Citizen of the World, explored "home" as being "a spiritual construct made up of special people and relationships, those that came along on the long hard road, those that were left behind to be re-visited later."

In 2021 a solo piano recording, Beyond the Stars, was released posthumously.

This album was recorded on 28 November 2003, but none of the six songs were released during Mseleku's lifetime.

Beyond The Stars provides what Blue Note recording artist Nduduzo Makhathini describes in his liner notes as "a divine summary" of Mseleku's life story: "a sonic pilgrimage from the beautiful and organic landscapes of Durban, to the vibrant energy of London and ultimately toward the inner dimensions of one's being."

Mseleku was diabetic and at one time had been diagnosed as bipolar.

He was father of nine children: Sizwe Mseleku, Duma Mseleku, Maria Mbalentle Mseleku, Victoria Nokuwela Ogunsaya (maiden name Mseleku), Teresa Milewski, Brenda Mseleku, Michael Mseleku, Noel Goldenbaum and Nirvana Nokwe-Mseleku being the youngest, his departure left a devastating mark on his survived family.