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"Wenyukela" from Raise Your Spirit Higher -- Wenyukela
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"Wenza Ngani?" from Raise Your Spirit Higher -- Wenyukela
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"Music Knows No Boundaries" from Raise Your Spirit Higher -- Wenyukela
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‘Raise Your Spirit Higher’

 

South African group Ladysmith Black Mambazo will release Raise Your Spirit Higher/Wenyukela, part of a new Heads Up Africa series, in time for the 10-year anniversary of the end of apartheid.

 

Due in stores January 27, Raise Your Spirit Higher deals with issues of death and the fight against apartheid, but also deals with life and the rebirth of freedom.  The album includes “Tribute,” a short, but moving hip-hop track.

 

Against a backdrop of political upheaval and personal tragedy, Joseph Shabalala and the 10-member vocal group – now including four of his sons – have spent three decades fusing the disparate but spiritually resonant traditions of Zulu and Christian Gospel music.  In English, the word “Wenyukela” means “raise your spirit higher,” but the language of Shabalala’s stirring and richly layered vocal compositions is universal.  02/01/04
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