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Hennie Bekker is a musical pioneer whose eclectic and distinctive sound transcends genre. His award winning career has spanned decades and continents. A multi-platinum selling independent artist, Hennie is best known for his unique sound on the 'African Tapestries', 'SolitudesTM', 'Kaleidoscopes' and 'Tranquility™' album series. He was also a creative force behind the Juno award winning BKS, one of Canada's most successful electronic/dance bands. Bekker was raised in Mufulira, a Zambian copper mining town 10 miles south of the Congo border. In those early years, he was captivated by the symphonic sounds of the African wilderness, the haunting harmonies of tribal chanting and the rhythmic dialogue of drummers communicating between camps at sundown. Bekker is a self-taught pianist who had his professional debut at age 15, spending the next decade performing with various bands throughout Zambia, Zaire, Zimbabwe. In later years he experienced the wonders of the bushveld as he traveled 1000 miles of wilderness by motorcycle from the Zambian Copperbelt to Bulawayo in Zimbabwe via the Victoria Falls (The Smoke That Thunders). His journey, so close to the wild, forced him on one occasion, to wait a comfortable distance away from a herd of elephants crossing the road. Bekker's travels eventually took him to Kenya, the congo and then to South Africa where he established himself as a composer and bandleader. His success as a fusion-jazz musician and bandleader elevated him to become the musical director for one of South Africa's largest record companies. There, he added scores of film, television, radio and commercial music to his list of career accomplishments.