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"Biko" is an anti-apartheid protest song by English rock musician Peter Gabriel. It was released by Charisma Records as a single from Gabriel's eponymous third album in 1980. The song is a musical eulogy, inspired by the death of the black South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko in police custody on 12 September 1977. Gabriel wrote the ...
"Biko's Kindred Lament" is a tribute to the South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko. [8] " ... All songs written by David Hinds, except where noted.
While best known in South Africa, "Senzeni Na?" has gained some popularity overseas. The song was sung at the funeral scene in the anti‐apartheid film The Power of One [9] as well as during the opening credits of the film In My Country, and a recording of the song as sung at the funeral of Steve Biko can be heard at the end of the album version of "Biko" by Peter Gabriel. [10]
In 2020, Rolling Stone included this record in their "80 Greatest albums of 1980" list, praising Gabriel "for a haunting LP that touches on political assassinations (“Family Snapshot”), the futility of war (“Games Without Frontiers”), and the brutal murder of South African activist Steve Biko (“Biko”). He made more popular albums ...
The first South African activist to receive widespread attention outside South Africa was Steve Biko when he died in police custody in 1977. [21] His death inspired a number of songs from artists outside the country, including from Tom Paxton and Peter Hammill. [21] The most famous of these was the song "Biko" by Peter Gabriel.
The song only peaked at number 74 on the R&B Singles chart, and Terrell left the group shortly afterward, but it’s a great song that’s more than worthy of both the man who co-wrote it and the ...
Bantu Stephen Biko OMSG (18 December 1946 – 12 September 1977) was a South African anti-apartheid activist. Ideologically an African nationalist and African socialist, he was at the forefront of a grassroots anti-apartheid campaign known as the Black Consciousness Movement during the late 1960s and 1970s.
An amused Porcaro also agrees that the Steve Barron-directed “Africa” music video, with its generic safari and tribal imagery, hasn’t aged so well. “First of all, you’ve gotta consider ...