Jonas Gwangwa

Person · Open Library

Works

1

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

South Africa

Active from

1937-10-19

Active to

2021-01-23

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

3,591

Total plays

20,455

Jazz trombonist and composer Jonas Gwangwa (born: Jonas Mosa Gwangwa) has played an influential role in the evolution of South African jazz. A member, along with jazz pianist Abudllah Ibrahim (then, known as Dollar Brand), of the Jazz Epistles, the first Black South African to release an album, Gwangwa has gone on to become an award-winning composer. In addition to composing the scores of such films as Cry Freedom, Generations and Othello, Gwangwa composed the theme music of South Africa's Olymp

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

   · 2021 · cited 43,689x

2. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

   · 2020 · cited 15,989x

3. Accurate structure prediction of biomolecular interactions with AlphaFold 3

   · 2024 · cited 15,334x

4. Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

   · 2018 · cited 10,999x

5. Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019

   · 2020 · cited 10,255x

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Gender

male

Citizenship

South Africa

Place of birth

Johannesburg

Place of death

Johannesburg

Occupation

film score composer

Languages spoken

English language

Award

Order of Ikhamanga

Genre

jazz

Instrument

trombone

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