Sharon Katz taught herself to play the guitar when she was 11 and went on to use music as a tool for good — first in her native South Africa, and later around the world.
“I was attracted to the ‘protest music’ of the ‘60s, as well as the African music I heard on the radio. I formed bands with my friends in my hometown, and I was always the band leader, arranging the songs and the harmony parts for others to sing. So, music was a huge part of my life all through my childhood,” she says, recalling her rejection of the apartheid…
