starts tomorrow in South Africa Soccer World Championship, and is currently running on television, an opening concert from Johannesburg. Stupid, the organizers have probably not had the courage to undertake great musicians from the host country itself, but also have "World Stars" flown down to reel off the usual chart crap. Very sad ...
So I've once seen on YouTube, if I find a few songs and videos with music from South Africa, which has inspired me in the last 25 years. Johnny Clegg & Savuka were the first group from the region, came to my attention in the mid 1980s. Even if it is actually pretty normal rock or even pop music ...
On one of the slightly later albums there was this song that tells of his traditional Zulu wedding (the translation was supplied):
known South African music but of course right through Paul Simon's great album "Graceland " and the equally brilliant concert in Harare . Here is a piece with Ladysmith Black Mambazo :
A star of the concert was Miriam Makeba already in the 1960s with the song "Pata Pata" in the U.S. and Europe was known
Here, however, "Soweto Blues," which explores the student uprising of 1976 concert attended. He also has been in the 60s known as a jazz musician, he joined as the Monterey Pop Festival of 1967 on. A really beautiful song from the period is "Grazing in the Grass":
When Paul Simon concert, he wore his hymn to Nelson Mandela ago:
course, the mention of Winnie Mandela been "problematic", but it's still a beautiful song. And who would have thought that it would take only three years that Mandela is released from prison and that he further four years later became president of his country would.
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