Happy birthday to Jonathon Butler, born October 10, 1961.
Born and raised in Cape Town, South Africa during apartheid, Jonathan Butler started singing and playing acoustic guitar as a child. Racial segregation and poverty during apartheid has been the subject of many of his records. His first single, the first by a black artist played by white radio stations in the racially segregated South Africa, earned a Sarie Award, South Africa’s equivalent to the Grammys… READ FULL BIOGRAPHY
