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They are best known for the protest song "Weeping", written by keyboard-player Dan Heymann, that the band recorded incorporating strands of "Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika" at a time when public performance of the ANC anthem could lead to summary arrest.
As a member of the South African rock group Bright Blue in the 1980s, Dan Heymann penned the anti-apartheid protest song Weeping.
Keyboard-player Dan Heymann and the Cohen brothers (bassist Ian and drummer Peter) had jammed together as teenagers, and had kept in touch during their University years. With old friend Tom Fox on guitar, and front-man Robin Levetan, the initial line-up of Bright Blue was complete.
It must have been late in 1989, when I heard Bright Blue play a new song at the Roxy in Melville, Johannesburg. The band hadn't even worked it up into a full arrangement. Dan Heymann just played it on his piano, and Tom Fox sung. The words carried the uncertainty of those times.
Dan Heymann, songwriter of Weeping. When the South African band, Bright Blue, was formed during 1983, Dan Heymann was a founder-member, and was the keyboard-player until the band wound down in 1990, also writing several songs, the best-known being "Weeping".
Jan 10, 2018 · Before moving to the United States several decades ago, Dan Heymann was a musician touring in his native homeland of South Africa. He and his band wrote songs in protest of apartheid while the world watched a nation in crisis—divided by race and fighting their way towards equality.
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Who wrote that anti-apartheid freedom song, Weeping, that's been performed by so many artists, including Josh Groban? The answer is songwriter Dan Heymann.
