It wasn’t until a friend sent me a copy of the compilation album Classic Mbaqanga Girl Groups(compiled by the blog Electric Jive) that I was awakened to the history of girl groups in South Africa, and ...

During talks with Saturday Night Live house band member Heidi Berg on possibly producing her record, Simon was exposed to a tape of South African mbaqanga street music from the Johannesburg townships ...

Unity, peace, freedom and respect were Lucky Dube's mantras. At the age of 18 he recorded his first album playing traditional mbaqanga music, but it was a genre that he felt constrained his ambition. ...

The album took direct inspiration from the South African style of music called mbaqanga. Simon was given a tape of mbaqanga music, describing it as “very good summer music, happy music ...

BBC Archive: South African Mbaqanga group, The Mahotella Queens, performing Jive Mahotella at the 2015 WOMAD festival 2015: The Mahotella Queens: Jive Mahotella. Video, 00:03:442015: The Mahotella ...

The trio’s latest album proposes a distinctly South African brand of sophistipop, folding elements of amapiano, mbaqanga, and house into a breezy, wistful blend. At the moment, the way to ...

Incorporating Ngwenya’s soul keyboard into what had begun as Zulu close-harmony vocals and guitar work was as startling an innovation for mbaqanga as US musician Ray Charles’ introduction of electric ...

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Incorporating Ngwenya's soul keyboard into what had begun as Zulu close-harmony vocals and guitar work was as startling an innovation for mbaqanga as US musician Ray Charles ' introduction of electric ...

Legendary mbaqanga musical group the Soul Brothers are once again mourning the loss of one their longest serving members Sicelo Ndlela. The KZN-born bass guitarist died on Wednesday afternoon ...

Her mother is a talented singer and DJ, and her father a renowned Mbaqanga and Maskandi singer, also known as a member of the acclaimed music group, Ofeleba. Melita’s lineage is a blend of Xhosa ...