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Bongo Maffin, kwaito music group; Boo!, band; Boom Shaka, kwaito music group; Stef Bos (born 1961), singer; Cristina Boshoff (born 1980), folk pop singer and pianist; Brasse Vannie Kaap, hip-hop group; Bles Bridges (1947–2000), singer; Bright Blue, 1980s pop band, best known for the hit song "Weeping" The Brother Moves On, performance art ...
Mankunku chose to remain in his native Cape Town during apartheid.This meant that he was subjected to the Separate Amenities Act and similar apartheid legislation. A classic tale tells of his performance with an all-white big band in the Cape Town City Hall in 1964, where, because a mixed-race band was unlawful, he was forced to play behind a curtain so as to remain out of sight.
Albums by South African artists (13 C, 5 P) Amapiano ... South African music video directors ... Top 40 Music Magazine; Z.
After his return to South Africa in the 1990s Ngqawana worked with South African jazz musicians Hugh Masekela and Abdullah Ibrahim. He collaborated with Bjorn Ole Solburg on the Norwegian San Ensemble album, San Song. On that album he wrote two songs, "San Song" and "Migrant Workers".
West Nkosi (born Mkhubatseli West Nkosi, 1940 – 8 October 1998) was a South African music producer, saxophonist and songwriter. Nkosi was born in Nelspruit , South Africa . He was an original member of the Makgona Tsohle Band which backed Mahlathini and the Mahotella Queens .
P J Powers won the 1986 Song for South Africa competition, [19] the first one run by the SABC. It aimed to promote South African music. The winning song was Don Clarke's Sanbonani. The final round was televised on national TV, with P J Powers supported by her band, Hotline. Sanbonani featured on the P J Powers and Hotline Greatest Hits album in ...
Dudu Pukwana was born in Walmer Township, Port Elizabeth, South Africa. [1] He grew up studying piano in his family, [1] but in 1956 he switched to alto saxophone after meeting tenor saxophone player Nikele Moyake. [2] In 1962, Pukwana won first prize at the Johannesburg Jazz Festival with Moyake's Jazz Giants (1962 Gallo/Teal).
In the 1980s and early 1990s, near the end of the apartheid era, Mango Groove and Juluka were the only major South African music groups with both black and white band-members. [ citation needed ] In the early 1990s Mango Groove was managed by Roddy Quin (with Run-Run Artist Management), who was also the manager for Johnny Clegg of Juluka. [ 40 ]