Sky Masters traces the history of black, independent music during the oppression of the apartheid era in Namibia. Dozens of witnesses and accomplices recall the glorious days of Township Jazz in Windhoek’s shanty towns of the 1940’s and ‘50’s. It's a story about a migrant worker returning to Windhoek with a Tenor Saxophone in 1942. Johannes Andreas Mureko, gifted and passionate, formed the first known professional music band in Windhoek's so-called Old Location and influenced a whole generation of musicians. Mureko’s myth is revealed in tales still told by a generation of musicians and instrument players citing him as their teacher. Against all the odds, it was their belief in music which carried them through some of the most difficult times of the oppressive pass laws, yearning for stardom but facing the reality of losing during a fierce battle of the bands.
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