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The album contains many well-known songs by the group, spanning songs mainly from the late 1980s to newly recorded versions (and a few 1970s tracks), such as "Homeless" (composed by Mambazo leader Joseph Shabalala and Paul Simon), "Nomathemba", and many more.
Amabutho is the first album by the South African isicathamiya group Ladysmith Black Mambazo. [2] [3] It was released in 1973 by Gallo Record Company. [4]Amabutho was the first record by black musicians in the country to receive gold disc certification (25,000 copies).
Ladysmith Black Mambazo is a South African male choral group singing in the local vocal styles of isicathamiya and mbube.They became known internationally after singing with American Paul Simon on his 1986 album Graceland.
Bhekizizwe Joseph Shabalala was born on 28 August 1940, in the town of Ladysmith (eMnambithi district) in the KwaZulu-Natal region of South Africa. His parents, Jonathan Mluwane Shabalala and Nomandla Elina Shabalala, raised Joseph and his six siblings on a white-owned farm called Tugela.
The song is known world-wide thanks to the interpretation of South African singer Miriam Makeba (herself a Xhosa). In her discography the song appears in several versions, both with the title Qongqothwane and as The Click Song. The song was written and originally performed by The Manhattan Brothers who made it famous across Africa. Miriam was ...
Nomathemba "Lanka" Ntsibande (born 19 April 1986) is a South African soccer player who plays as a defender for SAFA Women's League side JVW F.C. and the South Africa women's national team. Club career
On Thembi, Sanders moved away from the long, intense compositions of his earlier albums and produced an album of shorter tracks.Sanders plays tenor and soprano saxophones, alto flute, koto, balafon, various percussion instruments, and a cow horn on the album.
Evelyn Nomathemba Kasi (1969–1979) Gibson Mthuthuzeli Kente (23 July 1932 – 7 November 2004) was a South African playwright , composer, director, and producer based in Soweto . He was known as the Father of Black Theatre in South Africa, and was one of the first writers to deal with life in the South African black townships.