A multi award-winning and established artist, with a growing global reputation, Bokani Dyer was born 1986 in Gaborone, Botswana, where many artists from South Africa, including his father, musician Steve Dyer, were living in exile during apartheid.
Dyer has recorded six albums under his own name including his most recent, 2023’s Radio Sechaba which was released by Brownswood Recordings, a London-based independent record label founded by Gilles Peterson. Radio Sechaba comes 13 years after the 2010 release of Dyer’s debut album, Mirrors, an album that provided a strong indication of the style and artistic trajectory he continues to pursue. His second album, Emancipate the Story (2011), emerged in the same year that he won the prestigious Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Jazz and continued his musical journey, exploring the tradition and furthering the contemporary landscape of SA jazz through his compositions.