Posts Tagged as ‘mbube’

December 19, 2008

Ladysmith Black Mambazo

If you read my post on South African Zulu music, you might remember that Isicathamiya is a musical style, originally from the mines, that consists of a cappella male voices singing smoothly and accompanied by tip-toe dancing.
This style was in fact introduced by Ladysmith Black Mambazo themselves, as they softened down the loud voices of [...]

December 19, 2008

South African Zulu music

You may be thinking “weird…” or “WTF?” or, for those of you living in Spain, “Qué friqui!”. But you have surely heard this, which is a cover of a Zulu song: WATCH NOW. (Yeah… Either YouTube or WordPress was messing with me and wouldn’t allow me to embed the video so you’ll have to bear [...]