• Mbaqanga (Zulu pronunciation: [mɓaˈǃáːŋga]) is a style of South African music with rural Zulu roots that continues to influence musicians worldwide today...
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    Lucky Dube (section Mbaqanga)
    his cousin's band, the Love Brothers, playing Zulu pop music known as mbaqanga. The band signed with Teal Record Company and recorded the album Lucky...
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  • ("townships") during the 20th century. The principal genres of township music are mbaqanga, kwela, and marabi. Marabi evolved from jazz influence in the 1920s. Immigrants...
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  • music. The genre is principally a blend of traditional house, kwaito, mbaqanga, deep house, tribal house, and soulful house. It features various South...
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  • Mahotella Queens, a mbaqanga band Vusi Mahlasela (born 1965) Patricia Majalisa, bubblegum artist Makgona Tsohle Band (1964–1999), a mbaqanga instrumental band...
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  • The Soul Brothers (category Mbaqanga musical groups)
    The Soul Brothers is a South African Mbaqanga music group from KwaZulu-Natal formed in 1975 by Moses Ngwenya and David Masondo. They released over 45 albums...
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  • musicians in South Africa. Over the years, marabi developed into early mbaqanga, arguably the most distinctive form of South African music. This has continued...
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    record an album of South African music after hearing a bootlegged tape of mbaqanga, South African street music, and in 1986 he traveled to Johannesburg and...
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  • Gospel recording artist Years active 1980 - current Children 4 sons Musical career Genres Gospel, mbaqanga Instruments Vocals, guitar, piano Musical artist...
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  • Mbaqanga is an album by the South African musical group Mahlathini and the Mahotella Queens, released in 1991 and in the US in 1992. The group supported...
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    a cappella, zydeco, and South African styles such as isicathamiya and mbaqanga. In the early 1980s, Simon's relationship with his former musical partner...
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    demographic groups. Lucky Dube recorded 25 albums, fusing reggae with Mbaqanga. The Marcus Garvey Rasta camp in Phillipi is regarded by many to be the...
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  • Scatterlings. The styles incorporated into Juluka's music are maskanda and mbaqanga, both of which are native to South Africa, and western folk and rock. The...
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  • Mahlathini and the Mahotella Queens (category Mbaqanga musical groups)
    Zomgqashiyo and Mahlathini and the Girls of Mgqashiyo) were a South African mbaqanga supergroup made up of the three musical acts linked together by talent...
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    Phiri (23 March 1947 – 12 July 2017) was a South African jazz, fusion and mbaqanga musician born in Mpumalanga to Thabethe Phiri, a Malawian immigrant worker...
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    Cameroon, Soukous in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kizomba in Angola, and Mbaqanga in South Africa. New World styles like Salsa, R&B/Rap, Reggae, and Zouk...
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  • culture of the apartheid-era townships. While closely associated with mbaqanga, township jive more broadly incorporates influences from mariba and kwaito...
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  • guitarist. His music is often classified as jazz, fusion, disco, soul and mbaqanga. Radebe's compositions were primarily in Sesotho but he would occasionally...
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    Mahotella Queens (category Mbaqanga musical groups)
    The group is noted for their distinct vocal harmony sound, guitar-led mbaqanga music, and fast stage dancing. Bopape was a talent scout and producer at...
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  • South Africa. Mhlongo drew on various South African musical styles such as Mbaqanga, Maskanda, Marabi and traditional Zulu, fused with contemporary elements...
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  • (aged 65) Abadiânia, Brazil Genres Jazz blues folk-pop salsa samba bikutsi makossa highlife juju soukous mbaqanga Occupation Musician Instruments Guitar...
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    South African border, from 1980 to 1984. Here he re-absorbed and re-used mbaqanga strains, a style he continued to use following his return to South Africa...
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  • Lishonil' Ilanga (2006), in the category of Best Maskandi Album and Best Mbaqanga Album respectively, alongside The Soul Brothers and Bhekumuzi Luthuli....
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    with the greatest international recognition being mbube, isicathamiya, mbaqanga, afrofusion, kwaito, South African pop music, afro house, South African...
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  • Kuduro Kwaito Kwela Lingala Makossa Maloya Ma'luf Marabi Marrabenta Mbalax Mbaqanga Mbube Morna Music of Egypt Music of Nigeria Ndombolo Owerri Bongo Ojapiano...
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  • Moses Ngwenya (category Mbaqanga)
    a South African pianist, keyboardist, and musician. He co-founded the Mbaqanga group The Soul Brothers in 1974 with South African singer and drummer,...
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  • Mzwakhe Mbuli (born 1 August 1959) is a South African poet, Mbaqanga singer and former Deacon at Apostolic Faith Mission Church in Naledi Soweto, South...
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    2019(2019-07-16) (aged 66) Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa Genres Mbaqanga maskanda Afro-pop Zulu music acoustic rock alternative rock indie rock...
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  • David Masondo (singer) (category Mbaqanga)
    2015) was a South African singer and drummer. He was the lead vocalist of Mbaqanga group The Soul Brothers. His musical career began as a drummer for band...
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  • The Indestructible Beat of Soweto (category Mbaqanga albums)
    artists from South Africa. The sleeve notes state that all songs are in the mbaqanga style, a guitar-based style popular at the time in the townships of Johannesburg...
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