David Kramer (/krɑːmə/) is a South African singer, songwriter, playwright, and director, notable for his musicals about the Coloured communities in the Cape, and for his early opposition to apartheid.

[citation needed] He played in a South African band named The Creeps in the 1960s, and then travelled to England in 1971 to study textile design at Leeds University on a bursary.

[citation needed] On stage, Kramer portrayed himself as a rural everyman who travelled the dusty roads of small-town South Africa with an old bicycle and a cheap guitar.

[citation needed] The show aimed to document an almost lost part of South Africa's musical heritage, featuring unknown musicians and instruments from the Northern Cape hinterland.

One of these "forgotten" artists, Hannes Coetzee, became an overnight YouTube sensation,[4] and was invited to participate in a teaching workshop for slide and steel guitar in Port Townsend, WA.

[citation needed] Kramer and Taliep Petersen first met in the mid-'70s at a folk concert staged by Des and Dawn Lindberg at the University of Cape Town.

[5] With Petersen, he created Fairyland, Poison, and Kat & the Kings, all to critical acclaim, the latter having successful runs on Broadway and in London's West End.