“Syd Kitchen is to South African music what the Sphynx is to Egypt; a landmark that has seemingly always existed, yet remains a true enigma. Syd Kitchen has been active in the South African music ...

Durban based-Syd Kitchen is a legend! His crafty guitar work is enchanting. Some might know him as the other half of the duo Bafo Bafo, with Madala Kunene. Or as the only artist to have performed at ...

Syd Kitchen, who has died in Durban at the age of 60, was an iconic South African singer, songwriter and guitarist who was scarcely known in his own country and whose music was seldom if ever heard on ...

THE death of Syd Kitchen, one of South Africa’s favourite and long-serving musicians, on Tuesday night has brought a flood of messages for his family and on Facebook and Twitter. ... THE death of Syd ...

Splashy Fen is going to be strange without Syd Kitchen. This folk singer had a long association with the event which began as a folk music festival with the help of the Durban Folk Club, of which Syd ...

A third generation white South African, Syd Kitchen is lauded in his home country as a musical figure of Dylan-esque proportions. A prominent fixture on the music scene since the 1970s, Syd's songs ...

Skollie, saint, scholar, hippest of hippies, imperfect musician with a perfect imagination, Syd Kitchen was, like all great artists, born to enrich his art and not himself. Plagued by drugs, alcohol ...

The biggest news in a musical weekend that is heavy with rock (The Parlotones and Piet Botha) and large with acoustic guitars (Steve Newman and Syd Kitchen) has to be jazz: the Jazzathon is on! The ...