Ingoma lyrics thandiswa mazwai biography
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Thandiswa Mazwai
South African musician
Musical artist
Thandiswa Nyameka Mazwai (born 31 March 1976)[2] is a South Africanmusician, and is also the lead vocalist and songwriter of Bongo Maffin. She is also known as King Tha.[3]
Her debut album Zabalaza (released in 2004), which attained double platinum status and her album also got nominated for Planet Awards on BBC Radio 3.[4] Also in 2004, she won Best Female Artist at the Metro FM Music Awards.[5]
Her second album, Ibokwe, released in 2009, was certified gold ställning eller tillstånd within a few weeks after its release.[4]
Early life
[edit]Thandiswa Mazwai was born in Eastern Cape in 1976 – the year of the Soweto Uprising – and grew up almost entirely in Soweto, Johannesburg, amidst the heavy apartheid township violence of the 1980s. Both her parents, Belede and Thami Mazwai,[6] were journalists and anti-apartheid political activists, and she recollects that her home w
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This post is part of an ongoing pancocojams series on the African words "ngoma" and "ingoma".
This post showcases the contemporary South African love song "Ingoma" by Thandiswa Mazwai. "Ingoma means "song" in the Xhosa and Zulu languages. "Ingoma" is also used to classify the broad category of Zulu recreational dance.
The content of this post is presented for cultural, entertainment, and aesthetic purposes.
All copyrights remain with their owners.
Thanks to the composer/s of this song and thanks to Thandiswa for her vocals, and thanks to all others who are featured in this recording, with special thanks to Hugh Masekela for the trumpet solo towards the end of this song. Thanks also to all those who are quoted in this post and thanks to the publisher of this sound file on YouTube. Thanks also to the onscreen transcriber of this song (as found in Example #2 below). I'm not sure if that is the same person as the publisher of this song file on YouTube.
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