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When Ladysmith Black Mambazo took the Grammy for Best Traditional World Music Album at the 47th Annual Grammy Awards for their lates album No Boundaries last February, South African President Thabo Mbeki proudly remarked, "The Grammy Award that has been so spectacularly won by Ladysmith Black Mambazo makes us all proud to be South Africans. The people and government of South Africa salute this remarkable group on their achievement and wish them continuing success in the future." Ladysmith Black Mambazo combines traditional South African music with some of the sounds and sentiments of Christian gospel music.
The group borrows heavily from a traditional music called isicathamiya, which developed in the mines of South Africa during the apartheid regime, where Black workers were taken by rail to work far away from their homes and their families. Poorly housed and paid less, the mine workers would entertain themselves after a six-day week by singing songs into the wee hours on Sunday mornings. When the miners returned to the homelands, this musical tradition returned with them.
The recent Grammy is the seventh for Ladysmith Black Mambazo dating back to their debut album Shaka Zulu in 1987.
-Roberta Jones 03/05/05 >> go there
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