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SA loses folk music legend

Cape Town - Durban folk musician Syd Kitchen has died at the age of 60.

East Coast Radio reports that according to friends and family, Kitchen died on Tuesday evening after a battle with terminal cancer.

The poet and songwriter had produced 10 albums throughout his career and supplied the words and music to a documentary film called Fool In A Bubble.

Kitchen had been making music since the 1970s. He would have played his 21st Splashy Fen festival in the Drakensberg in April.
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