Shiyani Ngcobo was born in 1953 in Umzinto, on KwaZulu-Natal’s south coast. Shiyani Ngcobo was a maskanda (Zulu folk music) musician for more than thirty…
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Sipho MChunu Sipho co-founded Juluka with Johnny Clegg in the mid-1970’s. Originally a migrant laborer with a sound traditional music and dance background, Sipho taught…
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Soweto Gospel Choir is a vocal ensemble, performing in 8 different languages. its performances are an inspirational program of tribal, traditional and popular African gospel.…
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Tananas was a trio of world class musicians from South Africa and Mozambique who got together in 1988. Their improvisational and rhythmic sensibility established them…
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Ever since she burst into the public’s consciousness as the lead vocalist and songwriter of award-winning South African kwaito group Bongo Maffin, Thandiswa (Thandiswa Nyameka…
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Vusi Sidney Mahlasela Ka Zwane was born in 1965 in Lady Selbourne, near Pretoria, and grew up in Mamelodi township, where he still resides. Vusi…
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Headed by charismatic founder/composer Joseph Shabalala, Ladysmith Black Mambazo is Africa’s number one selling recording group. The name of the group comes from the city…
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While successful reggae artists have traditionally hailed from the Island of Jamaica, over the decades of the 1980s and 1990s South African native Lucky Dube…
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Juluka was a trailblazing band based in Johannesburg, South Africa, led by Johnny Clegg and Sipho Mchunu. The band formed in the early 1970s and…
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Johnny Clegg, born in Rochdale, England in 1953 was raised in his mother’s native land of Zimbabwe before emigrating to South Africa at the age…
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