Andile Yenana

Andile Yenana is a South African jazz pianist, composer, producer and music director, born in 1968 in King William's Town in the Eastern Cape. He studied under Darius Brubeck at the University of Natal's School of Jazz and Popular Music, where he met saxophonist Zim Ngqawana and trumpeter Feya Faku, and he played on all five of Ngqawana's albums. He has arranged for Sibongile Khumalo, Gloria Bosman and Suthukazi Arosi, worked on the pan-African project Mahube with Steve Dyer, and was the 2005 Standard Bank Young Artist for Jazz. He won a SAMA for Best Producer for Winston Mankunku Ngozi's Abantwana be Afrika; his own records include We Used To Dance, Who's Got The Map? and Way Out Is In.