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Caiphus Semenya

South African composer, musician, and husband of singer [a=Letta Mbulu]. In the late sixties, he settled in Los Angeles on account of the apartheid policies back home and teamed up with people like [a=Harry Belafonte] and [a=Quincy Jones] as well as compatriots [a=Hugh Masekela], [a=Miriam Makeba] and [a=Jonas Gwangwa]. In the early nineties the couple returned to South Africa, after 26 years of self-imposed exile.