Ladysmith Black Mambazo is a Grammy Award-winning South African male choral group singing in the local vocal styles of isicathamiya and mbube.

Ladysmith Black Mambazo

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Lucky Philip Dube was a South African reggae musician and Rastafarian. He recorded 22 albums and was South Africa's biggest-selling reggae artist. Dube was murdered in the Johannesburg on the 18th October 2007

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Lucky Dube_It's Not Easy

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Amatshitshi Amhlope is part of the 1990s wave that introduced the feminine side of maskandi, a deeply masculine genre born in the 1950s.

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Thandiswa Mazwai (born 31 March 1976) is a South African musician and is also the lead vocalist and songwriter of Bongo Maffin.

After five albums with Bongo Maffin, Thandiswa ventured onto a solo career. Her first project, Zabalaza (2004), reached double platinum status and won numerous awards, including a Kora award for Best African Female and four South African Music Awards, including Best Album. It was also nominated for the BBC Radio 3 Planet awards.

Her music is often deeply political and her compositions include traditional Xhosa rhythms, Mbaqanga, reggae, kwaito and funk, and jazz sounds.

Thandiswa has performed all over the world at venues, including at the 2010 FIFA World Cup Opening Ceremony, The Apollo in New York, WOMEX, the Cannes Film Festival, Midem, the Hackney Empire, Africa Brazil Festival, FESPACO Film Festival, BBC World Music Awards and many Mandela 46664 concerts. She has several noteworthy collaborations. For instance, she collaborated on two songs with US musician Meshell Ndegeocello on her album The World Has Made Me the Man of My Dreams, which was nominated for a Grammy in 2007. At home in South Africa, Thandiswa has collaborated with illustrious musicians including Hugh Masekela, Stimela, the late Busi Mhlongo. Together with the rock band BLK JKS, Thandiswa performed as 'King Tha' vs. BLK JKS at the 2017 Afropunk Festival Johannesburg.

In July 2012 she duetted with Paul Simon in Hyde Park, London, in his Graceland album's 25th-anniversary concert. She sang the female vocals on "Under African Skies", which was originally sung by Linda Ronstadt on the Graceland album.

Zabalaza

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Ndiyahamba

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Stimela is a South African Afro-fusion band, founded during the 1970s by Ray Phiri, a self-taught guitarist. The band was formed when Phiri got together with drummer Isaac Mtshali, Thabo Lloyd Lelosa, and Jabu Sibumbe, and they initially call themselves the Cannibals. The band started out as instrumentalists, but it later evolved to Afro-fusion when they joined forces with vocalist Jacob "Mparanyana" Radebe in 1975, continuing to work together for four years. The band kept going after Radebe died in 1978.

They changed their name to Stimela after a life-changing experience in Mozambique when they were stranded in Maputo for three months. They had to sell all their belongings to take a train home. This trip was a watershed moment as it was where they conceived the new name for the band: the train is translated as Stimela in Nguni languages.

Besides the change in name, the band also expanded with new members Charlie "Sam" Ndlovu, Nana Coyote, Thapelo Kgomo and Ntokozo Zungu. With soulful tunes and gripping lyrics, the band has recorded platinum-winning albums such as Fire, Passion, and Ecstasy, Listen, Look and Decide as well as the controversial People Don't Talk, So Let's Talk. One of their most memorable tracks - "Whispers in the Deep" - was restricted for broadcast by the old South African Broadcasting Corporation.

Steam Tracks - The Best of

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Victims (Remastered)

Different Colours, One People

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Thembalami

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Reggae Strong

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Release Me

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Respect

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Remember Me

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The Other Side

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The Way it Is

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Feel Irie

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Slave

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Grand Masters

Skokiaan

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Harari

Give

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Melodi Yalla

Gazette (Kazet)

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Jive Madlokovu!!!

Stimela SaseZola

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Sinners Are Welcome

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Who's Gonna Change this World?

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A Message

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Whiskey and Plastic

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Gallo Music Publishers is the Publishing arm of Africa’s Largest Independent Major Label, Gallo Music Group and is home to South Africa’s most legendary songwriters and heritage of musical works. As part of the Tiso Blackstar Group in South Africa, Gallo now operates physically in a number of Key African Territories covering East Africa, West Africa and Southern Africa. Our Global Presence in partnership with Warner Chappell, Edition Intro, Café Concerto, Mars Music, Ediciones Musicales Clippers, and Hebbes Music allow Gallo to offer the very best African and South African Music anywhere in the world.

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