Mark Ginsburg … new album. Photo: Dean Ginsburg

LEXI LANDSMAN

PERFORMING as a young soprano in a synagogue choir in Camps Bay, Cape Town, ignited Mark Ginsburg’s lifelong passion for cantorial music.

“Cantorial music struck me as something very beautiful. It was only much later on that I thought back to my earliest memories of music and that’s what made me dig back,” he says.

Ginsburg grew up in an Orthodox household in Cape Town and moved to Australia in 1982. Now 53, and living in Sydney, the musician recognises the indelible mark that his early “stomping ground” had on his life and his latest offering.

Last month he launched The Mark Ginsburg Band’s debut album, Generations, at the Basement in Sydney. He says that apart from the album being inspired by cantorial music, it also reflects the “heartbeat of Africa”, which he says is “in my blood as well”.
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