Recorded in 1967, during the bloody heyday of apartheid South Africa, the joyful, defiant, easy-swinging jazz-jive heard on Mbaqanga Songs was then the recreational soundtrack of the country's black ...

So appalling and oppressive did conditions become that the most famous South African musicians of the period, Miriam Makeba and Hugh Masekela, both fled into exile (the former after she testified ...

If there’s one music style that never fails to make me smile its classic girl groups. The harmonies, the youth, the choreographed moves, the identical outfits – what’s not to love. I’ve spent ...

Say what you will about Paul Simon`s ”Graceland” album or his recent semi-disastrous South African tour, he did accomplish one thing. Until Simon introduced the South African black township sound ...

Fka Mash's new EP 'Love Songs From Soweto' takes inspiration from musical styles that were pioneered in the face of - and overcame - colonial oppression As Black music culture grew in the townships ...

This special section is devoted to South African jazz, which has prospered for several decades and developed a distinctive character all its own. AAJ: SA was created in 2002 and has since been updated ...

Francistown — Thapelo Maleka, who goes by the alias MC Maswe, is a man on a mission as he has set out to create his own music genre. He explains that this hybrid music genre mixes mbaqanga and house ...

No score yet, be the first to add. 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. No ...

I first saw the all-singing, all-dancing Mahotella Queens back in the late 1980s, when they were on their epic tour of Europe, Asia, and the Americas, with their incomparable backing band, Makgona ...

Simon "Mahlathini" Nkabinde, known as the "Lion Of Soweto", was not allowed to leave South Africa until the mid-1980s, when he was invited to perform at a pioneering festival of music in Angouleme, ...