Caiphus Semenya

Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

South Africa

Active from

1941-06-21

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Listeners

4,632

Total plays

27,247

Formerly self-exiled from South Africa in the 1960s, Caiphus Semenya has built a solid reputation as a musical director and composer, working with his wife, vocalist Letta Mbulu, as well as with a variety of other exiled and semi-exiled African artists, such as Hugh Masekela and Miriam Makeba. Moving to Los Angeles, Semenya found himself working with and composing for a broad range of jazz and pop artists, including Lou Rawls, Nina Simone and Cannonball Adderley, his facility with both jazz and

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Perioperative patient outcomes in the African Surgical Outcomes Study: a 7-day prospective observational cohort study

   · 2018 · cited 467x

2. Maternal and neonatal outcomes after caesarean delivery in the African Surgical Outcomes Study: a 7-day prospective observational cohort study

   · 2019 · cited 164x

3. Risk factors for COVID-19-related in-hospital mortality in a high HIV and tuberculosis prevalence setting in South Africa: a cohort study

   · 2021 · cited 149x

4. Antimicrobial drugs bearing guanidine moieties: A review

   · 2021 · cited 137x

5. Difference in mortality among individuals admitted to hospital with COVID-19 during the first and second waves in South Africa: a cohort study

   · 2021 · cited 128x

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Gender

male

Citizenship

South Africa

Place of birth

Johannesburg

Spouse

Letta Mbulu

Occupation

film score composer

Languages spoken

English language

Genre

jazz

Instrument

saxophone

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