Songs & Stories

Singer/songwriter Sharon Katz used her music as a tool for social change in South Africa, where she had spent most of her youth. With her band, the Peace Train, Katz emphasized intercultural harmony and spiritual uplift. Her series of large-scale concerts and train tours involving multiracial and multicultural performers promoted a color-blind national unity in South Africa, where her music helped lay the groundwork for the country's democratic uprising in 1994.