The band sway downtown Montreal with their unique, rhythmic South African fusion. For promotion of Johnny Clegg's music to a new audience. From Wikipedia.org (Condensed): "Jonathan "Johnny" Clegg (born 7 June 1953) is a musician from South Africa, who has recorded and performed with his bands Juluka and Savuka. Sometimes called Le Zoulou Blanc ("The White Zulu"), he is an important figure in South African popular music history, with songs that mix Zulu with English lyrics, and African with various Western European (such as Celtic) music styles. Clegg was born in Bacup, Lancashire, to an English father and a Rhodesian mother whose family were Jewish immigrants from Lithuania and Poland. Already in his youth, Johnny Clegg, a white, English-speaking person with what he called a "secular Jewish" upbringing in the UK, Israel, Rhodesia (present-day Zimbabwe), Zambia, and South Africa, became interested in Zulu street music and took part in traditional Zulu dance competitions. Clegg formed the first prominent racially mixed South African band, Juluka, with gardener and Zulu musician Sipho Mchunu. Because it was illegal for racially mixed bands to perform in South Africa during the apartheid era, their first album Universal Men received no air play on the state owned SABC, but it became a word-of-mouth hit. Juluka's / Clegg's music was both implicitly and explicitly political; not only was the fact of the success of the band (which openly celebrated African culture in a bi ... | Views: 0 0 ratings | |
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Monday, 19 December 2011
Johnny Clegg - Live In Montreal (TV5 CBC, 2004)
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