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The UK music duo Mattafix have a song called "Memories Of Soweto" on their album Rhythm & Hymns (2007). Soweto is mentioned in the anti-apartheid song " Gimme Hope Jo'anna " by Eddy Grant . The line, "While every mother in a black Soweto fears the killing of another son", refers to police brutality during apartheid.
Soweto is a township of Johannesburg, ... Soweto may also refer to: Music. Soweto a 1979 album by Billy Higgins "Soweto" (song), a 2022 song by Victony;
Jaiva, Township jive (TJ), Soweto jive, Soweto sound or Soweto beat is a subgenre of South African township music and African dance form [1] [2] that influenced Western breakdance [3] and emerged from the shebeen culture of the apartheid-era townships.
"Soweto" is a 2022 song by Nigerian singer Victony and producer Tempoe. It was released as the first single from Victony's second extended play Outlaw . [ 1 ] It gained popularity on Tiktok and charted across the United Kingdom, Canada, Netherlands and Switzerland. [ 2 ]
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The Indestructible Beat of Soweto, later repackaged as The Indestructible Beat of Soweto Volume One, is a compilation album released in 1985 on the Earthworks label, featuring musicians from South Africa, including Ladysmith Black Mambazo and Mahlathini. In 2020, it was ranked number 497 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
The album re-conceptualised traditional music, freedom songs (including Mandela favourite, "Lizalis’idinga") and popular songs by South African legends (including Brenda Fassie, Lucky Dube and Miriam Makeba), from a symphonic and choral perspective – as part of honouring Nelson Mandela in the year he would have celebrated his 100th birthday.