Born in Durban, ROGER LUCEY started writing and performing songs in the mid-seventies. His first album, The Road Is Much Longer, was banned for possession and distribution, and the security police launched a covert ‘operation’ to silence him. Roger went on to work as a TV journalist covering wars in Southern and East Africa, and later in Madagascar, Bosnia and Chechnya. After more than a decade, he left the news industry to join Theatre for Africa, an environmental theatre company. He later became editor and presenter of an e.TV nightly arts/news programme for which he received the Arts and Culture Trust Award. In May 2010, he graduated as valedictorian from Duke University’s Graduate School of Liberal Studies. His autobiography, Back in from the Anger, was published in 2012 and was nominated for the Alan Paton Award. At the time, his work was featured in the inaugural exhibition at the Museum of Modern Culture in Gothenburg, Sweden. In 2016, he received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the South African Music Awards.
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