Joseph Shabalala founded the male a cappella group Ladysmith Black Mambazo 30 years ago in the South African province of Natal. His blending of several Zulu vocal traditions and the European ...

Founder of Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Joseph Shabalala has passed away at the age of 78 following an illness. Shabalala died on February 11 in an unnamed hospital in Pretoria. He has been with the ...

The founder of the South African multi-Grammy-Award-winning music group Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Joseph Shabalala, the state broadcaster reported Tuesday. He was 78. Shabalala died at a hospital ...

Ladysmith Black Mambazo has been singing the story of South Africa for more than 40 years. The a cappella group gained worldwide fame when Paul Simon featured it on his 1986 album Graceland.

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Musical lore has it that Ladysmith Black Mambazo, the iconic South African mbube group, was founded by Joseph Shabalala after a series of dreams in which he heard its sounds. It goes unmentioned ...

But there is only one Ladysmith Black Mambazo. It is by far the group with the biggest international reputation, thanks mostly to their contribution to Paul Simon’s Grammy-winning 1986 CD “Graceland,” ...

Joseph Shabalala, a South African singer who founded the choral group Ladysmith Black Mambazo, which brought traditional Zulu music to the world and orchestrated a joyful soundtrack to the anti ...

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Joseph Shabalala, founder and director of the Grammy-winning South African vocal troupe Ladysmith Black Mambazo, died Tuesday, the South Africa Times reports. He was 78. Ladysmith Black Mambazo ...

By Jon Pareles Joseph Shabalala, the gentle-voiced South African songwriter whose choir, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, brought Zulu music to listeners worldwide, died on Tuesday in a hospital in Pretoria.