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.

Ladysmith Black Mambazo, the legendary South African vocal ... who envisioned spreading traditional Zulu music across the globe. Sibongiseni remarked: “When my father started the group, it ...

Following multiple awards and honours including nine Grammy awards, the internationally acclaimed Ladysmith Black Mambazo have ploughed back to the country by collaborating with another group for ...

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 ...

Ladysmith Black Mambazo’s harmonies remain among the richest one will ever hear. Nearly as important as the singing Friday night was the group’s energetic, tightly coordinated Zulu dances ...

The group won its fifth Grammy just three years ago, “Shaka Zulu Revisited,” which won Best World Music Album. The win gave Ladysmith Black Mambazo the most Grammys for any World Music group.

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 ...

Joseph Shabalala, legendary founder of South Africa’s Ladysmith Black Mambazo, celebrating 42 years of a capella Zulu melodies at a show in Johannesburg in 2002. The group’s distinctive ...

His death was announced by Ladysmith Black Mambazo and came exactly ... In its wake, Mambazo released the 1987 record “Shaka Zulu,” which was produced by Simon and earned the group its first ...

Simon then produced Ladysmith Black Mambazo's first worldwide release, "Shaka Zulu", which won them their first Grammy Award for Best Folk Recording back in 1988. Since then, the group has been ...