Feya Faku

THE LEGACY SERIES : PRESENTS FEYA FAKU

Fezile “Feya” Faku is a trumpet and flugelhorn player born in New Brighton, Port Elizabeth. He started playing the trumpet at a late stage of his life without any formal teaching or training. He learnt how to play with help and coaching from various local musicians, many of whom were saxophonists rather than trumpeters, which may have inadvertently contributed to Feya’s unique playing style.

It was in Durban that Fezile’s career as a jazz artist began to blossom as he and his fellow musicians backed and accompanied the cream of South African music including Mankunku Ngozi, Thandie Klassen, Pat Matshikiza and Barney Rachabane to name a few.

Feya has travelled, performed and recorded extensively in South Africa and abroad with the likes of Abdullah Ibrahim, Bheki Mseleku, Mankunku Ngozi and in the Netherlands with the saxophonist Paul van Kemenade, and his Quintet. In Switzerland, he performed with the Swiss South African Quintet which he leads with the South African exile drummer Makaya Ntshoko who left SA in 1962, the year Feya was born!

Feya has travelled, performed and recorded extensively in South Africa and abroad with the likes of Abdullah Ibrahim, Bheki Mseleku, Mankunku Ngozi and in the Netherlands with the saxophonist Paul van Kemenade, and his Quintet. In Switzerland, he performed with the Swiss South African Quintet which he leads with the South African exile drummer Makaya Ntshoko who left SA in 1962, the year Feya was born!