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RE: MUSIC: Three Tune Tuesday 102 - 3 Songs by Johnny Clegg (The White Zulu)! - (3 Cover Performances!)

in Music3 years ago

Johnny Clegg eh, never heard of him, but I have now thanks to this post and I really liked it.

When Johnny Clegg was a young white teenager living in Johannesburg, South Africa, his stepfather ran away to Australia with his baby half-sister, leaving him and his mother behind. Obviously this was very traumatic, but it also left him without a father figure. He landed up being drawn to the masculinity and friendship of local Zulu migrants who had come up from the province of KwaZulu-Natal to his hometown of Johannesburg to find work.

Wow, really interesting history, that must have been a traumatic experience but in the end what happened defined him and made him what he is today, I really liked that middle song and loved the back of taxi version the lads did too.