Johnny Clegg (Jonathan Clegg, 7 June 1953 – 16 July 2019) was a South Afric… Read Full Bio ↴Johnny Clegg (Jonathan Clegg, 7 June 1953 – 16 July 2019) was a South African musician and anthropologist who recorded and performed with his bands Juluka and Johnny Clegg and Savuka, and as a solo act, occasionally reuniting with his earlier band partners.
Sometimes called Le Zoulou Blanc, he is an important figure in South African popular music history, with songs that mix Zulu with English lyrics and African with various Western music styles.
Clegg was born in Bacup, Lancashire, to an English father and a Rhodesian mother. Clegg's mother's family were Jewish immigrants from Poland, and Clegg had a secular Jewish upbringing, learning about the Ten Commandments but refusing to have a bar mitzvah or even associate with other Jewish children at school. His parents divorced when he was still an infant, and he moved with his mother to Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and then, at the age of 6, to South Africa, also spending less than a year in Israel during childhood.
As an adolescent in Johannesburg's northern suburbs, he encountered the demi-monde of the city's Zulu migrant workers' music and dance. Under the tutelage of Charlie Mzila, a flat cleaner by day and musician by night, Clegg mastered both the Zulu language and the maskandi guitar and isishameni dance styles of the migrants. Clegg's involvement with black musicians often led to arrests for trespassing on government property and for contravening the Group Areas Act. He was first arrested at the age of 15 for violating apartheid-era laws in South Africa banning people of different races from congregating together after curfew hours. At the age of 17, he met Sipho Mchunu, a Zulu migrant worker with whom he began performing music. The partnership, which they named Johnny & Sipho and then Juluka, was profiled in the 1970s television documentary Beats of the Heart: Rhythm of Resistance.
As a young man, Clegg pursued an academic career for four years, lecturing at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) and the University of Natal, and writing several seminal scholarly papers on Zulu music and dance. In the early stages of his musical career, Clegg combined his music with the study of anthropology at Wits, where he was influenced, among others, by the work of David Webster, a social anthropologist who was later assassinated in 1989. He preceded each song with snippets of Zulu culture, information, commentary, humor and personal anecdotes relevant and unique to that song. An engaged social anthropologist, he not only mastered the theories but delved into the culture and disseminated it.
Juluka was an unusual musical partnership for the time in South Africa, with a white man (Clegg) and a black man (Mchunu) performing together. The band, which grew to a six-member group (with three white musicians and three black musicians) by the time it released its first album Universal Men in 1979, faced harassment and censorship, with Clegg later remarking that it was "impossible" to perform in public in South Africa.[9] The group tested the apartheid-era laws, touring and performing in private venues, including universities, churches, hostels, and even private homes in order to attract an audience, as national broadcasters would not play their music. Just as unusually, the band's music combined Zulu, Celtic, and rock elements, with both English and isiZulu lyrics. Those lyrics often contained coded political messages and references to the battle against apartheid, although Clegg has maintained that Juluka was not originally intended to be a political band. "Politics found us," he told The Baltimore Sun in 1996. In a 1989 interview with the Sunday Times, Clegg denied the label of "political activist." "For me a political activist is someone who has committed himself to a particular ideology. I don’t belong to any political party. I stand for human rights."
Juluka's music was both implicitly and explicitly political; not only was the fact of the success of the band (which openly celebrated African culture in a bi-racial band) a thorn in the flesh of a political system based on racial separation, the band also produced some explicitly political songs. For example, the album Work for All (which includes a song with the same title) picked up on South African trade union slogans in the mid-1980s. As a result of their political messages and racial integration, Clegg and other band members were arrested several times and concerts routinely broken up.
Despite being ignored and often harassed by the South African government at home, Juluka were able to tour internationally, playing in Europe, Canada, and the United States, and had two platinum and five gold albums, becoming an international success. The group was disbanded in 1985, when Mchunu returned to his rural home to care for his family.
Together with the black musician and dancer Dudu Zulu, Clegg went on to form his second inter-racial band, Savuka, in 1986, continuing to blend African music with European influences. The group's first album, Third World Child, broke international sales records in several European countries, including France. The band went on to record several more albums, including Heat, Dust and Dreams, which received a Grammy Award nomination. Johnny Clegg and Savuka played both at home and abroad, even though Clegg's refusal to stop performing in apartheid-era South Africa created tensions with the international anti-apartheid movement and led to his expulsion from the British Musicians' Union. In one instance, the band drew such a large crowd in Lyon that Michael Jackson cancelled a concert there, complaining that Clegg and his group had "stolen all his fans". In 1993, the band dissolved after Dudu Zulu was shot and killed while attempting to mediate a taxi war.
Briefly reunited in the mid-1990s, Clegg and Mchunu reformed Juluka, released a new album, and toured throughout the world in 1996 with King Sunny Ade. Since then, Clegg has recorded several solo albums. His touring schedule was abbreviated in 2017 after undergoing surgery for pancreatic cancer, and Clegg performed his last scheduled tour date in Maritius in October of 2018. During one concert in 1999, he was joined onstage by South African President Nelson Mandela, who danced as he sang the protest song Savuka had dedicated to him, "Asimbonanga". Asimbonanga became something of an anthem for the Mass Democratic Movement's umbrella organisation, the United Democratic Front. During Mandela's illness and death in 2013, the video of the concert attracted considerable media attention outside South Africa.
His song "Scatterlings of Africa" gave him his only entries in the UK Singles Chart to date, reaching No. 44 in February 1983 with Juluka and 75 in May 1987 as Johnny Clegg and Savuka. The following year the song was featured on the soundtrack to the 1988 Oscar-winning film Rain Man.
His song "Life is a Magic Thing" was featured in Ferngully.
Savuka's song "Dela" was featured on the soundtrack of the 1997 film George of the Jungle and its 2003 sequel, while "Great Heart" was the title song for the 1986 film Jock of the Bushveld. "Cruel, Crazy, Beautiful World" was featured in the 1990 film Opportunity Knocks and 1991 film Career Opportunities. "Great Heart" was also the end credits song for the 2000 Disney movie Whispers: An Elephant's Tale. In 2002 Clegg provided several songs and incidental background music for Jane Goodall's "Wild Chimpanzees" DVD. Included in the extras on the disc are rare scenes of Clegg in the recording studio.
Jimmy Buffett recorded "Great Heart" for his 1988 album, Hot Water.
He co-wrote "Diggah Tunnah" with Lebo M. for Disney's 2004 direct-to-video animated film The Lion King 1½.
Clegg was awarded the Chevalier des Arts et Lettres (Knight of Arts and Letters) by the French Government in 1991.
In 2004, he was voted 23rd in the SABC3's Great South Africans.
In 2007, Clegg received an honorary doctorate in music from the University of the Witwatersrand.
In 2011, Clegg received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from City University of New York School of Law.
In 2012, Clegg received the Order of Ikhamanga,Silver as part of the National Orders ceremony. This award is the highest honour a citizen can receive in South Africa. It was presented by President Jacob Zuma.
In 2012, Clegg received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA.
In 2013, Clegg received an honorary Doctorate in Music from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
In 2015, Clegg was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire.
Clegg's son Jesse Clegg is also a recording artist. Displaying a style markedly different from that of his father, in 2008 he released his debut album When I Wake Up. As a rock musician, the younger Clegg has quickly built up a following, with the album being nominated for two South African Music Awards.
Clegg was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2015. Clegg died in his Johannesburg home on 16 July 2019.
Bibliography
Clegg, Jonathan (1981). Phil Bonner (ed.). ""Ukubuyisa Isidumbu", "Bringing back the body": An examination of the ideology of vengeance in the Msinga and Mpofana Rural Locations, 1822–1944". Working Papers in Southern African Studies. Johannesburg: Ravan Press. 2.
Clegg, Jonathan (1981). Andrew Tracey (ed.). "The Music of Zulu Immigrant Workers in Johannesburg: A Focus on Concertina and Guitar". Papers presented at the Symposium on Ethnomusicology. Grahamstown: International Library of African Music.
Clegg, Jonathan (1982). Andrew Tracey (ed.). "Towards an understanding of African Dance: The Zulu Isishameni Style". Papers read at Second Symposium on Ethnomusicology, 24–26 September 1981, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa. Grahamstown: Institute of Social and Economic Research.
Sometimes called Le Zoulou Blanc, he is an important figure in South African popular music history, with songs that mix Zulu with English lyrics and African with various Western music styles.
Clegg was born in Bacup, Lancashire, to an English father and a Rhodesian mother. Clegg's mother's family were Jewish immigrants from Poland, and Clegg had a secular Jewish upbringing, learning about the Ten Commandments but refusing to have a bar mitzvah or even associate with other Jewish children at school. His parents divorced when he was still an infant, and he moved with his mother to Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and then, at the age of 6, to South Africa, also spending less than a year in Israel during childhood.
As an adolescent in Johannesburg's northern suburbs, he encountered the demi-monde of the city's Zulu migrant workers' music and dance. Under the tutelage of Charlie Mzila, a flat cleaner by day and musician by night, Clegg mastered both the Zulu language and the maskandi guitar and isishameni dance styles of the migrants. Clegg's involvement with black musicians often led to arrests for trespassing on government property and for contravening the Group Areas Act. He was first arrested at the age of 15 for violating apartheid-era laws in South Africa banning people of different races from congregating together after curfew hours. At the age of 17, he met Sipho Mchunu, a Zulu migrant worker with whom he began performing music. The partnership, which they named Johnny & Sipho and then Juluka, was profiled in the 1970s television documentary Beats of the Heart: Rhythm of Resistance.
As a young man, Clegg pursued an academic career for four years, lecturing at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) and the University of Natal, and writing several seminal scholarly papers on Zulu music and dance. In the early stages of his musical career, Clegg combined his music with the study of anthropology at Wits, where he was influenced, among others, by the work of David Webster, a social anthropologist who was later assassinated in 1989. He preceded each song with snippets of Zulu culture, information, commentary, humor and personal anecdotes relevant and unique to that song. An engaged social anthropologist, he not only mastered the theories but delved into the culture and disseminated it.
Juluka was an unusual musical partnership for the time in South Africa, with a white man (Clegg) and a black man (Mchunu) performing together. The band, which grew to a six-member group (with three white musicians and three black musicians) by the time it released its first album Universal Men in 1979, faced harassment and censorship, with Clegg later remarking that it was "impossible" to perform in public in South Africa.[9] The group tested the apartheid-era laws, touring and performing in private venues, including universities, churches, hostels, and even private homes in order to attract an audience, as national broadcasters would not play their music. Just as unusually, the band's music combined Zulu, Celtic, and rock elements, with both English and isiZulu lyrics. Those lyrics often contained coded political messages and references to the battle against apartheid, although Clegg has maintained that Juluka was not originally intended to be a political band. "Politics found us," he told The Baltimore Sun in 1996. In a 1989 interview with the Sunday Times, Clegg denied the label of "political activist." "For me a political activist is someone who has committed himself to a particular ideology. I don’t belong to any political party. I stand for human rights."
Juluka's music was both implicitly and explicitly political; not only was the fact of the success of the band (which openly celebrated African culture in a bi-racial band) a thorn in the flesh of a political system based on racial separation, the band also produced some explicitly political songs. For example, the album Work for All (which includes a song with the same title) picked up on South African trade union slogans in the mid-1980s. As a result of their political messages and racial integration, Clegg and other band members were arrested several times and concerts routinely broken up.
Despite being ignored and often harassed by the South African government at home, Juluka were able to tour internationally, playing in Europe, Canada, and the United States, and had two platinum and five gold albums, becoming an international success. The group was disbanded in 1985, when Mchunu returned to his rural home to care for his family.
Together with the black musician and dancer Dudu Zulu, Clegg went on to form his second inter-racial band, Savuka, in 1986, continuing to blend African music with European influences. The group's first album, Third World Child, broke international sales records in several European countries, including France. The band went on to record several more albums, including Heat, Dust and Dreams, which received a Grammy Award nomination. Johnny Clegg and Savuka played both at home and abroad, even though Clegg's refusal to stop performing in apartheid-era South Africa created tensions with the international anti-apartheid movement and led to his expulsion from the British Musicians' Union. In one instance, the band drew such a large crowd in Lyon that Michael Jackson cancelled a concert there, complaining that Clegg and his group had "stolen all his fans". In 1993, the band dissolved after Dudu Zulu was shot and killed while attempting to mediate a taxi war.
Briefly reunited in the mid-1990s, Clegg and Mchunu reformed Juluka, released a new album, and toured throughout the world in 1996 with King Sunny Ade. Since then, Clegg has recorded several solo albums. His touring schedule was abbreviated in 2017 after undergoing surgery for pancreatic cancer, and Clegg performed his last scheduled tour date in Maritius in October of 2018. During one concert in 1999, he was joined onstage by South African President Nelson Mandela, who danced as he sang the protest song Savuka had dedicated to him, "Asimbonanga". Asimbonanga became something of an anthem for the Mass Democratic Movement's umbrella organisation, the United Democratic Front. During Mandela's illness and death in 2013, the video of the concert attracted considerable media attention outside South Africa.
His song "Scatterlings of Africa" gave him his only entries in the UK Singles Chart to date, reaching No. 44 in February 1983 with Juluka and 75 in May 1987 as Johnny Clegg and Savuka. The following year the song was featured on the soundtrack to the 1988 Oscar-winning film Rain Man.
His song "Life is a Magic Thing" was featured in Ferngully.
Savuka's song "Dela" was featured on the soundtrack of the 1997 film George of the Jungle and its 2003 sequel, while "Great Heart" was the title song for the 1986 film Jock of the Bushveld. "Cruel, Crazy, Beautiful World" was featured in the 1990 film Opportunity Knocks and 1991 film Career Opportunities. "Great Heart" was also the end credits song for the 2000 Disney movie Whispers: An Elephant's Tale. In 2002 Clegg provided several songs and incidental background music for Jane Goodall's "Wild Chimpanzees" DVD. Included in the extras on the disc are rare scenes of Clegg in the recording studio.
Jimmy Buffett recorded "Great Heart" for his 1988 album, Hot Water.
He co-wrote "Diggah Tunnah" with Lebo M. for Disney's 2004 direct-to-video animated film The Lion King 1½.
Clegg was awarded the Chevalier des Arts et Lettres (Knight of Arts and Letters) by the French Government in 1991.
In 2004, he was voted 23rd in the SABC3's Great South Africans.
In 2007, Clegg received an honorary doctorate in music from the University of the Witwatersrand.
In 2011, Clegg received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from City University of New York School of Law.
In 2012, Clegg received the Order of Ikhamanga,Silver as part of the National Orders ceremony. This award is the highest honour a citizen can receive in South Africa. It was presented by President Jacob Zuma.
In 2012, Clegg received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA.
In 2013, Clegg received an honorary Doctorate in Music from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
In 2015, Clegg was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire.
Clegg's son Jesse Clegg is also a recording artist. Displaying a style markedly different from that of his father, in 2008 he released his debut album When I Wake Up. As a rock musician, the younger Clegg has quickly built up a following, with the album being nominated for two South African Music Awards.
Clegg was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2015. Clegg died in his Johannesburg home on 16 July 2019.
Bibliography
Clegg, Jonathan (1981). Phil Bonner (ed.). ""Ukubuyisa Isidumbu", "Bringing back the body": An examination of the ideology of vengeance in the Msinga and Mpofana Rural Locations, 1822–1944". Working Papers in Southern African Studies. Johannesburg: Ravan Press. 2.
Clegg, Jonathan (1981). Andrew Tracey (ed.). "The Music of Zulu Immigrant Workers in Johannesburg: A Focus on Concertina and Guitar". Papers presented at the Symposium on Ethnomusicology. Grahamstown: International Library of African Music.
Clegg, Jonathan (1982). Andrew Tracey (ed.). "Towards an understanding of African Dance: The Zulu Isishameni Style". Papers read at Second Symposium on Ethnomusicology, 24–26 September 1981, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa. Grahamstown: Institute of Social and Economic Research.
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Johnny Clegg Lyrics
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4 Box Square Nothing on the western front Nothing at all Nothing on the…
Across the River I've been watching you now for a long long time Across…
Africa Copper sun sinking low Scatterlings and fugitives Hooded eye…
Africa Rising Keep this for protection Deep in your heart It's the Kalahar…
African Litany Trapped in a moment of history You changed the world and…
African Sky Blue African sky blue, your children wait for the dawn African sk…
All I Got Is You I lie here in the dark on my own I see…
All is not Lost Something's changed in the whether There's a movement on the…
Always On Time Each day is a train thundering down my back Every moment…
Asilazi ( featuring Soweto Gospel Choir) Asilazi, asilazi thina ilanga lethu lizofika nini Silindile …
Asimbonanga Asimbonanga Asimbonang' u Mandela thina Laph'ekhona Laph'ehl…
Berlin Wall Welcome to my island But please don't you stay too long I…
Boy Soldier I am a boy soldier Look into my eyes I'm tired and…
Boys I am a boy soldier Look into my eyes I'm tired and…
Brave New World I know it's coming wrong or right I'm leaving flesh and…
Bull Heart I would like to be the one Who populates your dreams I…
Bullets for Bafazane Shadow men from the outlands come to town Looking for Bafaza…
Cha Cha Black Rain fall into my life I'm looking for a woman…
Circle Of Light In the history of all dreams None has shone as brightly…
Colour Of My Skin I'm caught inside the color of my skin People see me…
Colours of Change I'm showing you this picture Because it changed all that I…
Congo White stone hidden in the ground Gonna take a life before…
Crocodile Love Umoya wami onakele kunsela elangena Lapha enhlizweni yami Um…
Cruel You got to wash with the crocodile in the river You…
CruelCrazyBeautiful World You have to wash with the crocodile in the river You…
Dancing Free Listen to your heartbeat Listen to your heart Out and up th…
Daughter Of Eden She's the daughter of eden She's sister of hope She's the …
Day In The Life The hardest thing to do Is to pay my way and…
December African Rain Standing on the earth, seagull flying Standing on the earth,…
Dela One day I looked up and there you were Like a…
Deliwe Deliwe can you see the clouds rolling in The wind in…
Devana Badedele Bengene, Kade Basidelela Let them in, they have in…
Digging For Some Words Chorus Wanderers and nomads have gone to see their chieftain…
Don't Walk Away Dogs in the backyard And the flies are on the wall Thunder…
Father Buttons from a uniform A cartridge from the war Letters to m…
Faut Pas Baisser Les Bras Faut pas baisser les bras Pas baisser les bras, faut pas…
FEVER I'm walking through the night I'm walking through the night …
Give Me The Wonder Tell me new words And break this thirst Sing me iron songs…
Giyana Giyani Siyayibiz' as'hambeni! Hayi, Ngane (We are …
Giyani Hey siyayibiz' asambeni, hayi ngane yamaShangane! Siyayibiz'…
Great Heart The world is full of strange behavior Every man has to…
Heart Of The Dancer I want to look into the heart of the dancer His…
Hello Bye Bye Day by day I feel a little stronger You so far…
Hidden Away Down Clear summer day You became the prey You gave your best de…
High Country There's a girl who lives in the high country Where the…
I Call Your Name Oh no, you've gone again I feel like Daniel in the…
I Don't Want To Be Away Especially when the moon is new Especially when I fake it…
I Know That Sound I know that sound It's the night train passing It won't sl…
I've Been Looking I've been looking for something to lose I've been looking fo…
Ibhola lethu Itikiti esandleni ma izibukeli zonke zakithi Itikiti esandle…
Impi Impi! wo 'nans' impi iyeza Obani bengathinta amabhubesi? Imp…
In My African Dream Something broke the place where the rain is bornb Something …
Inkunzi Ayihlabi Ngokumisa Yiyo lenkunzi yiyo isimaqobotshana mama Yiyo lenkunzi yiyo i…
Into the Picture Mercy in bondage In the final war for peace Peasants, rebe…
It's an Illusion Hum mmm oh, hum mm oh yehum Hum mmm oh, hum…
Jarusalema Sizofika nini (when will we arrive) Kuhomhlaba wakiti (in th…
Jericho You are a dreamer of dreams walking a lonely shore Dream…
Joey Don't Do It She rises for work early each day She's tough and she's…
Jongosi (Hayi we majongosi) Young and free (Hayi we majongosi) Warri…
Kilimanjaro I'm sitting on the top of Kilimanjaro All my heart is…
King Of Time I've been thing about the way I think about my…
Kwela Man Long ago there was a sound in the night Kwela man,…
Lessons in Love I was born inside the rain on a day of…
Life Is A Magic Thing Life is a magic thing, yeah, yeah Life is a magic…
Locked and Loaded Out of the rain into my seat On that train you…
Love In The Time Of Gaza I was born inside the rain on a day of…
Magumede Balithatha ibhulukwe lami Magumede, ibhuluwe lami Balithatha…
Makhabeleni Ngikhumbula ngisakhula ngikhul'ekhaya I remember the days g…
Mama Shabalala An old lady walking down the dusty farm road Looking for…
Manqoba Yithi umanqoba Yithi umanqoba Sesanqoba izizwe Uma ufuna thi…
Missing Burning tyres on the freeway No one in sight Thre's a raging…
Moliva Hawu baba ngashada intombi yami esikolweni emoliva Kwashunqa…
Naked in the Rain I feel nervous about these times she said It's like the…
Nans impi Nans' impi zangena wematatazela (Here are the regiments, the…
New World Survivor I was sitting at the corner cafe Looking across Montego Bay…
Nyembezi Ujabul' uhlezi umendweni mntanami Ujabul' uhlezi umendweni m…
Oceanearth Standing in the hills below the valley lies Watching the las…
One man One Vote (Haya, haya) Keep your head up, go foreward Bayeza abafana b…
Orphans of the Empire In ships they came from Europe, across the salt sea Come…
Ride In Your Car I woke up this morning I went to the window Mouth feels…
Ring On Her Finger Beyond freedom and dignity Beyond the dying of the light Bey…
Rolling Ocean You are the rolling ocean, you are the mighty sea You…
Sail Away She fell out the sky cause she base no wings She's…
Scatterling of Africa Copper sun sinking low Scatterlings and fugitives Hooded eye…
Simple Things Rain forest talking to the dragon-mountain-moon Stars infest…
Siyayilanda Bamba! Siyayilanda! Siyayibamba siyayilanda! Ngithi bamba! S…
Spirit Is The Journey Ploughed the moon reached an island Balanced on the edge of…
Take My Heart Away Chorus Take my heart away (repeat) To be the sound of wild…
Talk to the People There's a brawl in a lonely whites only bar A lekker…
Tatazela Something in the way she moves In a way she touches…
Thamela Thamela ′mbulu thamela! Warm yourself in the sun, water liza…
Thamela - Die Son Trek Water Thamela 'mbulu thamela! Warm yourself in the sun, water liza…
Thandiwe Zisho inggaba Iyangala intombazane eshawela Hawu! Inyangala …
The Crossing Through all the days that eat away At every breath that…
The Revolution Will Eat Its Children He’s a leader, talks of freedom He knows the power of…
The Waiting [Chorus] Here we stand waiting on the plain Darkness has t…
The World is Calling Tonight I had a happy hour And loved your gentle style I…
These Days Yashimbawula! (the watchman's fire is burning) What happene…
Third world child Bits of songs and broken drums Are all he could recall So…
Touch The Sun Sitting in her bed But inside her head She can see all…
Tough Enough Lomhlaba unzima, lomhlaba [this world is a harsh place, thi…
Umfazi Omdala Uyishayelani lengane sencane, wemfazi omdala? Uyishayelani l…
Universal Men I have undone this distance so many times before That it…
Utshani Obulele Wangishisa ndoda ngakhala ngaphansi (You have betrayed me, m…
Waiting Here we stand waiting on the plain Darkness has taken the…
Walima 'Mabele Ngaze ngahamba mina (I have journeyed) Ngashona emoliva (Unt…
Warsaw 1943 Amambuka, amambuka azothengisa izwe lakithi, izwe lakithi Am…
Wishing Well The world is a beautiful place And its red fine and…
Witness Inside the rain I saw you talking to him Like a plain I…
Woman Be My Country Here we stand on the edge of the day Faces melting…
Woza Friday Webaba, kunzima kulomhlaba Webaba, lo msebenzi ubhokile Weba…
Your Time Will Come WAQAMB' AMANGA MUS' UKUQAMB' AMANGA [you were lying, do not …
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@charlierussell7572
In 1989, I was an African American visiting South Africa. It was then I learned of Johnny Clegg & Savuka and was instantly a rabid fan. The music reconnected me to the land of my ancestors. I cried the day I boarded the plane home. But the music has never left me. I smuggled some banned tapes out with me.
@jannicholls3256
Love push 4evr je
@user-yw5px5qm5w
It makes me happy to listen and watch how this guy was supporting our African culture
@mary-anneswanson8445
It is hard to see the world without the light he brought to it . We are so lucky to live in a time when we an still see that light ,still here the voices and still be moved by it all . God keep Johnny Clegg and bless all who joined with him in life to bring joy to the world . Savuka and Jaluka Thank you all <3
@alanpattinson6211
What a beautiful comment.
@exploregreer1048
Great humble fierce humanitarian. Mr. Clegg has deservedly joined his spiritual brothers and sisters behind the pearly gates, singing and dancing to the sound of Gabriel's horn. Peacefully and Respectfully thank you for leaving earth with a blueprint of hope.♥️♥️♥️♥️
@reismarques458
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@pettercalito
In the words of Nelson Mandela "It is Music and dance that makes me at peace with the world and myself". That performance just gave me so much peace looking at what the world is going through at the moment. All will be well brothers and sisters. One day we shall all be at peace and COVID-19 will be history.
@kocc7966
We will never have another Johnny Clegg!