Novelist Nadine Gordimer, who calls Mahlasela a "national treasure, " took an interest in him at an early age and arranged guitar lessons.

NPR: Vusi Mahlasela's Musical Journey

Written by poet and novelist Owen Sheers, it is the last and largest of a series of National Theatre Wales "moving productions" in its first year.

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