Bassist Gary Zhosa and guitarist Ivan Kadie in a still from This Is National Wake. Courtesy of National Wake
By PJ Grisar
January 6, 2023
National Wake was a band, a movement and a revolution — and within four years, it was just a memory.
Formed in Johannesburg, South Africa, in the late 1970s, National Wake blended punk, funk and reggae, but its most subversive act was bringing together Black and white musicians who lived together, jammed together and played to mixed crowds in…
