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Jonas Mosa Gwangwa OIG (19 October 1937 – 23 January 2021) was a South African jazz musician, songwriter and producer. He was an important figure in South African jazz for over 40 years. Life and career
Tributes are pouring in for South Africa's Oscar-nominated anti-apartheid jazz trombonist and composer Jonas Gwangwa, who has died at the age of 83. With driving music that fired up Black South ...
His song "Soweto Blues", sung by his former wife, Miriam Makeba, is a blues/jazz piece that mourns the carnage of the Soweto riots in 1976. [33] He also provided interpretations of songs composed by Jorge Ben, Antônio Carlos Jobim, Caiphus Semenya, Jonas Gwangwa, Dorothy Masuka, and Fela Kuti.
She is wife of Mrekza Makhafola and an adoptive mother of Mbali. She is the mother of Namhla Mabaso. She is currently a stepmother of Themba Makhafola. Rapulana Seiphemo as Tau Mogale: [4] The hardcore successful son of Zondiwe Mogale. He was married to Karabo Moroka but separated when Karabo choose Zola Radebe over him.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, in partnership with Universal Music Group, has announced the renewal of the the Jonas Gwangwa Music Composition Initiative, a development program ...
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the launch of the Jonas Gwangwa Music Composition Initiative, a program to help Black British musicians who are interested in ...
The 2007 change from the original Jonas Gwangwa composition, followed by Mandla "Spikiri" Mofokeng's theme music. Before the introduction of Generations: The Legacy, the title music was by Trevor Jones. The theme song for Generations: The Legacy was composed by Jonas Gwangwa and Claude Gombard (stage-name Claude King).
His wife Wendy and their family later join him. With the aid of Australian journalist Bruce Haigh , the British High Commission in Maseru , and the Government of Lesotho , they are flown under United Nations passports and with one Lesotho official over South African territory, via Botswana , to London , where they were granted political asylum .