Winston "Mankunku" Ngozi

Winston Monwabisi Mankunku Ngozi was born in Retreat, Cape Town in 1943. His musicality emerged early on and was carefully nurtured by his mother, Gertrude. Having experimented with piano and trumpet he took up saxophone in his mid teens. Along with one in three South Africans the Ngozi family was uprooted from their home and relocated to Gugulethu under the notorious Group Areas Act in the early '60's. By this time however Winston was already gigging extensively and his early influences in Cape Town included Midge Pike