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The music originated in "female gourd-resonated monochord songs that were transferred and given an acoustic life on guitar". [5] The roots of what is today called maskandi have been traced back to non-guitar based forms of music in the 1920s, with the shift to guitar beginning in Rhodesia in the 1930s with a group of musicians inspired by the music in Western films. [6]
Shiyani Ngcobo was a Maskandi guitarist and teacher from South Africa. He toured Denmark, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, the United States and the United Kingdom during the early 2000s in support of his album Introducing Shiyani Ngcobo becoming a major influence in taking Maskanda music to international audiences.
Imithente (named after a kind of grass that grows in rural KwaZulu Natal) is a Maskandi group from Johannesburg, South Africa.. The band was formed in 1993 by late guitarist, Simosakhe Mthalane, and three female singers: Buselaphi Gxowa, Dumisile Manana and Nokwazi Ntuli, all from KwaZulu-Natal.
Guitar-like instrument, most commonly with ten strings in two courses and made from an armadillo back 321.321-6: Philippines: Kudyapi [115] rondalla plucked chordophone with 14 strings tuned F# B E A D G. 321.321: Polynesia: nose flute [116] Flute, made from a single piece of bamboo, with three holes to blow into from the nostrils, with ...
"Philippine Music Instruments". National Commission for Culture and the Arts. Archived from the original on December 1, 2008; Manuel, E. Arsenio (1978). "Towards an Inventory of Philippine Musical Instruments: A Checklist of the Heritage from Twenty-three Ethnolinguistic Groups" (PDF). Asian Studies.
Thokozani Langa (born 9 February 1972) is a Maskandi musician from Mahlabathini, Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa. [1]Langa signed with Bula Music in 2004 to release his third studio album I-Protection Order (2011).
Pinoy rock, or Filipino rock, is the brand of rock music produced in the Philippines or by Filipinos.It has become as diverse as the rock music genre itself, and bands adopting this style are now further classified under more specific genres or combinations of genres like alternative rock, post-grunge, ethnic, new wave, pop rock, punk rock, funk, reggae, heavy metal, ska, and recently, indie.
Teodoro "Teddy" de Villa Diaz (1 April 1963 – 21 August 1988) was a Filipino musician and songwriter, best known as the founder and original guitarist of the Dawn.. As a songwriter, he co-wrote the band's first single "Enveloped Ideas" and the hit song "Salamat", which was released posthumously in 1989. [2]