One of South Africa's top musicians — and an artist whose sound was known the world over, thanks to Paul Simon's album Graceland — has died. Guitarist, vocalist and composer Ray Chikapa Phiri was 70 ...

The BBC brings word of Phiri's death, which took place at a clinic in the South African city of Nelspruit two months after he was diagnosed with lung cancer. He'd been hospitalized for several weeks, ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Ray Phiri, a South African jazz musician who founded the band Stimela and became internationally known while performing on Paul Simon’s Graceland tour, died of cancer on Wednesday ...

Ray Phiri, a South African jazz musician who founded the band Stimela and became internationally known while performing on Paul Simon’s groundbreaking “Graceland” tour, has died of cancer at age 70.

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FILE - In this Aug. 16, 1991 file photo, Paul Simon, center, plays a finale with lead guitarist Ray Phiri, left, and actor-comedian Chevy Chase on the saxophone in New York's Central Park. Ray Phiri, ...

Cape Town – The SABC on Wednesday morning reported that South African jazz legend, Ray Phiri had died. The 70-year-old musician suffered from lung cancer and had recently been admitted to a hospital ...

Ray Phiri, a South African jazz musician who founded the band Stimela and became internationally known while performing on Paul Simon's "Graceland" tour, died July 12 at a hospital in the northeastern ...

JOHANNESBURG — Ray Phiri, a South African jazz musician who founded the band Stimela and became internationally known while performing on Paul Simon’s Graceland tour, died of cancer Wednesday at age ...