[1]: 16 He was already an accomplished folk singer and they would both perform at the Troubadour Club in Doornfontein singing compilations of protest songs by Bob Dylan and Joan Baez, some like We Shall Overcome which had been banned in South Africa.
[3][1]: 16 Their first album, released in 1967, Folk On Trek, would be banned in South Africa because of what censors called obscene lyrics and the copies of the record destroyed.
[6][1]: 16 Hiring Anton Mostert, he fought their case in the supreme court and won, allowing the musical to tour the country for eighteen months.
[6][1]: 16 In 1976, they produced The Black Mikado, a West End musical, in Diepkloof, Soweto with white patrons subject to unnecessary police searches on entering the township.
[1]: 16 [7] South African artists including Johnny Clegg, Sipho Mchunu, John Kani, Winston Ntshona, Oswald Mtshali, Abigail Kubeka, the Soweto String Quartet, Hugh Masekela, Jonas Gwangwa, and the Drakensberg Boys Choir were only some of the performers.
[1]: 16 [2] Dawn died at a Plettenberg Bay hospital on 7 December 2020, from COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa after announcing by video message six days earlier that she had contracted the virus.