Ladysmith Black Mambazo

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Mention African song and most people think of South African practitioners of the vocal arts – Miriam Makeba, Solomon Linda, and perhaps more than anyone else in recent memory, Ladysmith Black Mambazo. It is Ladysmith Black Mambazo who has come to represent the traditional culture of South Africa. They are regarded as South Africa’s cultural emissaries at home and around the world. They are a national treasure of the new South Africa in part because they embody the traditions suppressed in the old South Africa.