Steve Newman is an accomplished South Africa

South Africa

The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

n acoustic

Acoustic guitar

An acoustic guitar is a guitar that uses only an acoustic sound board. The air in this cavity resonates with the vibrational modes of the string and at low frequencies, which depend on the size of the box, the chamber acts like a Helmholtz resonator, increasing or decreasing the volume of the sound...

 guitarist

Guitarist

A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselves on the guitar while singing.- Versatility :The guitarist controls an extremely...

, and was a founder member of the popular African

Music of Africa

Africa is a vast continent and its regions and nations have distinct musical traditions. The music of North Africa for the most part has a different history from sub-Saharan African music traditions....

 group Tananas

Tananas

Tananas, is a South African band formed in 1987. Originally it consisted of Mozambican Gito Baloi , Ian Herman and Steve Newman . First recorded by the independent label Shifty Records. Tananas combines jazz, Mozambican salsa and township jive...

. For thirty years Newman has been collaborating with fellow South African guitarist, Tony Cox

Tony Cox (South African musician)

Tony Cox is a Zimbabwean born guitarist and composer based in Cape Town, South Africa. A master of the Fingerpicking style of guitar playing, he has won the SAMA for best instrumental album twice...

. He is also one of The Aquarian Quartet, consisting of Tony Cox, Syd Kitchen (deceased 2011), Greg Georgiades and Steve Newman. He was a member of Mondetta, a self-described "world music group", with Gito Baloi

Gito Baloi

Gito Baloi was an African musician, born in Mozambique. Originally known for his collaborations and as a member of the trio Tananas, his haunting voice and bass guitar also shine through his solo albums "Ekhaya", Na Ku Randza", "Herbs & Roots" and the posthumously released "Beyond"...

 (of Tananas) and Wendy Oldfield.

Discography (in progress)

As Steve Newman

• Your Mother is Very Worried About You {1979} Out of Print LP
• What do you Want (1982) solo & with Tony Cox
  Tony Cox (South African musician)
  Tony Cox is a Zimbabwean born guitarist and composer based in Cape Town, South Africa. A master of the Fingerpicking style of guitar playing, he has won the SAMA for best instrumental album twice...
  
   - Out of Print LP
• 101 Ways to Play the Acoustic Guitar (1983) with Tony Cox - Out of Print LP
• Tananas (1986) with Kathryn Locke - Out of Print Cassette
• Planetarium Live (c. 1989) with Tony Cox
  Tony Cox (South African musician)
  Tony Cox is a Zimbabwean born guitarist and composer based in Cape Town, South Africa. A master of the Fingerpicking style of guitar playing, he has won the SAMA for best instrumental album twice...
  
   - Out of Print Cassette
• Alive at Le Plaza (1993) with Tony Cox
  Tony Cox (South African musician)
  Tony Cox is a Zimbabwean born guitarist and composer based in Cape Town, South Africa. A master of the Fingerpicking style of guitar playing, he has won the SAMA for best instrumental album twice...
  
   - Out of Print Cassette
• About Time (2002) with Tony Cox
• Steve Newman (2004) solo independent release
• The World In A Guitar (2004) with Aquarian Quartet & friends (Madala Kunene, Terence Scarr, Edi Nedilander, Ashish Joshi, Kesivan Naidoo
  Kesivan Naidoo
  Kesivan Dev Naidoo is a South African drummer, who plays predominately jazz, electronica and world music.- 1979 - 1995:...
  
  , Errol Dyers)
• Flavour (2008) solo

With Tananas

Tananas

Tananas, is a South African band formed in 1987. Originally it consisted of Mozambican Gito Baloi , Ian Herman and Steve Newman . First recorded by the independent label Shifty Records. Tananas combines jazz, Mozambican salsa and township jive...

• Tananas (1989) with Tananas
  Tananas
  Tananas, is a South African band formed in 1987. Originally it consisted of Mozambican Gito Baloi , Ian Herman and Steve Newman . First recorded by the independent label Shifty Records. Tananas combines jazz, Mozambican salsa and township jive...
  
  
• Spiral (1990) with Tananas
• Time (1992) with Tananas
• Orchestra Mundo (1995) with Tananas
• Unamunacua (1996) with Tananas
• The Collection (1997) with Tananas
• Seed (1999) with Tananas
• Alive in Jo'burg (2001) with Tananas