Ruth Leon recommends…Ladysmith Black Mombazo – Center for the Art of Performance UCLA

Ruth Leon recommends…Ladysmith Black Mombazo – Center for the Art of Performance UCLA

Ruth Leon recommends

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December 19, 2021

Ladysmith Black Mombazo – Center for the Art of Performance UCLA
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Here is a wonderful, uplifting concert by the South African vocalists Ladysmith Black Mambazo. This concert was recorded in March 2020 and it’s what I listen to when it all gets too much. It’s not to everyone’s taste but it sure is mine. Music to lighten your soul. Songs are in Zulu and English, sometimes you can’t tell the difference, and it doesn’t matter at all.

Ladysmith Black Mambazo are one of the world’s greatest and most distinctive vocal groups. For sixty years the legendary a cappella male choir have invoked the soul of South Africa with their intricate rhythms and harmonies and powerful, joyous songs.    They shot to global stardom after featuring on Paul Simon’s Graceland and have been touring the world ever since.

I defy you not to be cheered up by these songs. You can dip in and out whenever you need a mood lift.
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Comments

  • Gee… not a very diverse group.

    • doofus1714 says:

      Gerald Brennan,
      Great comment…. is that humor?
      a complaint?
      so clever.

    • N/A says:

      … What’s your point Gerald? Why don’t you expand on that further for us? Show us what you REALLY think.

      • I REALLY think, that you cannot distinguish between my parody of insisting on diversity (which, while normally being ‘politically correct’ would in this instance be rank racism and stupidity) and the necessary nature of the ensemble.

  • Tully Potter says:

    Mambazo, not Mombazo.

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