Steve Newman is a South African acoustic

guitarist A guitarist (or a guitar player) is a person who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of guitar family instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselv ...

, and was a founder member of the popular

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group Tananas. For thirty years Newman has been collaborating with fellow South African guitarist, Tony Cox. He is also one of The Aquarian Quartet, consisting of Tony Cox, Syd Kitchen (deceased 2011), Greg Georgiades and Steve Newman. He was a member of Mondetta, a self-described "world music group", with

Gito Baloi Gito Baloi (September 30, 1964 – April 4, 2004) was an African musician, from Mozambique. Originally known for his collaborations and as a member of the trio Tananas, he also released solo albums as vocalist and bassist: "Ekhaya" (1995), “Na K ...

(of Tananas) and

Wendy Oldfield Wendy Oldfield (born in Cape Town, South Africa) is a South African singer. At the age of nineteen, she formed the rock group The Sweatband, and from 1999 to 2001, she was involved with the band Mondetta. Career In 1983, Oldfield was involved ...

Discography

As Steve Newman * ''Your Mother is Very Worried About You'' (1979) — out of print LP * ''What Do You Want'' (1982) — solo and with Tony Cox; out of print LP * ''101 Ways to Play the Acoustic Guitar'' (1983) with Tony Cox — out of print LP * ''Man on the Jetty'' (1985) — out of print cassette (solo), recorded at Pearl Road Studios, London, by

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*''Tananas'' (1986) with Kathryn Locke — out of print cassette * ''Planetarium Live'' (c. 1989) with Tony Cox — out of print cassette * ''Alive at La Plaza'' (1993) with Tony Cox — out of print cassette * ''About Time'' (2002) with Tony Cox * ''Steve Newman'' (2004) — solo independent release * ''The World in a Guitar'' (2004) with Aquarian Quartet & friends (

Madala Kunene Madala Kunene (born 3 April 1951) is a South African musician born in Kwa-Mashu, near Durban. Kunene started busking on Durban’s beach-front at the age of 7, making his first guitar out of a cooking oil tin and fish gut for the strings, soon b ...

, Terence Scarr, Edi Nedilander, Ashish Joshi,

Kesivan Naidoo Kesivan Dev Naidoo (born 25 June 1979) is a South African people, South African drummer, who plays predominantly jazz, electronica and world music. Musical studies 1979 – 1995 Born in East London, Eastern Cape, East London, Kesivan was th ...

, Errol Dyers) * ''Flavour'' (2008) — solo With Tananas * ''Tananas'' (1989) * ''Spiral'' (1990) * ''Time'' (1992) * ''Orchestra Mundo'' (1995) * ''Unamunacua'' (1996) * ''The Collection'' (1997) * ''Seed'' (1999) * ''Alive in Jo'burg'' (2001)

References

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