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South Africa’s Pilani Bubu has ‘jumped off the shoulder of giants’

Pilani Bubu found her music community after she moved from South Africa to New Orleans. She understood that the people she met wanted to learn more about her culture back home. That’s when she started to incorporate South African music into her repertoire

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