Picture: Oupa Bopape/Gallo Images via Getty Images As they wrap up their 39 back-to-back shows in North America on Wednesday, music group Ladysmith Black Mambazo was announced as one of the ...

Ladysmith Black Mambazo melds indigenous Zulu songs and dances with South African isicathamiya. Shabalala had recently converted to Christianity and brought gospel influences into Ladysmith’s sound.

Long before the end of apartheid in South Africa, the founder of the Zulu singing group Ladysmith Black Mambazo wrote his first song. Called “Nomathemba,” it was titled after a girl’s name ...

Aug. 10:Ladysmith Black Mambazo — A worldwide audience learned ... cappella choral singing developed in South Africa by migrant Zulu communities.” Starts at 8 p.m. Tickets range from $45 ...

His son Thamsanqa took over leadership. In retirement Shabalala promoted the Ladysmith Black Mambazo Foundation which aimed to teach Zulu children about their musical heritage. He is survived by ...

South African vocal harmony group Ladysmith Black Mambazo has been announced as a ... who helped introduce the sound of traditional Zulu music to the world, died at the age of 78 in February ...

It was Paul Simon’s 1986 album “Graceland” that introduced Ladysmith Black Mambazo to the world ... founder and leader Dr. Joseph Shabalala was based on the melody of a Zulu wedding song. Along with ...

In 1964, they became Ladysmith Black Mambazo, named after Shabalala’s KwaZulu-Natal hometown. Black is a reference to oxen, the strongest of all farm animals, and Mambazo is the Zulu word for ...

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Ladysmith Black Mambazo are in fact one of the most hopeful and illuminating groups ever to dispel darkness with light. When you also find out that mambazo is the Zulu word for ax — because ...

SHABALALA: Funk and Zulu. GROSS: Well, let's hear how it sounds. This is from the Ladysmith Black Mambazo record "Two Worlds One Heart." This is the piece "Scatter The Fire." (SOUNDBITE OF SONG ...

He later christened it Ladysmith Black Mambazo - Ladysmith after his home town. Their exquisitely harmonised a cappella songs in Zulu became hugely popular in SA after the release of their debut ...