Johnny Clegg

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  Later, Jesse Clegg and the South African band Freshlyground joined forces for "Asimbonanga," a song of support for Mandela that Clegg's father, veteran South African singer Johnny Clegg, wrote.

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  23. Johnny Clegg, also known as "The White Zulu", musician (1953 - )

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  Johnny Clegg with Savuka & Juluka Live! And More... Over the years, musician Johnny Clegg has worked hard to merge the English-speaking and the...

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  Johnny Clegg with Savuka & Juluka Live!
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  Over the years, musician Johnny Clegg has worked hard to merge two worlds - the English-speaking and the African American culture of South Africa - and succeeded in doing so with the formation of the first interracial band - Jaluka.However, the group formed around the time of apartheid, which brought upon unforeseen complications including the banning of their first album by the South African government.Having to deal with so many uncontrollable issues, the group broke up in the mid-80's, and Clegg formed another band with Savuka, combining European pop music with South African melodies.
  
  Eagle Rock Entertainment reflects on the lifelong career of world music virtuoso and Billboard Music Award-Winner Johnny Clegg with the DVD release of Johnny Clegg with Savuka & Juluka Live!And More...This DVD is a two-hour retrospective of Clegg's significant career moments and events.Songs performed include "Jericho," "It's An Illusion," "Cruel Crazy Beautiful World," "Umfazi Omdala," "Siyayilanda," among others.In addition, featured on the DVD are nine Savuka videos, four Juluka videos, tracks from "Savuka - Live in Paris," and two tracks from "Juluka - Live in Cape Town."
  
  Johnny Clegg has broken South African barriers and has found great success in both Europe and Africa.Showing yet another step on his path to international stardom, Johnny Clegg with Savuka & Juluka Live!And More... will be available July 27, 2004 on DVD for a suggested retail price of $19.98.This film has a running time of 150 minutes.Special DVD extra features include an interview with Johnny Clegg, "Asimbonanga" performed with Nelson Mandela in Frankfurt, a dance performance of Mantombana with Juluka, a video of Savuka's "Scatterlings of Africa," which was the song featured in the 1989 movie Rain Man, and lyrics from some of their most popular songs.
  
  Johnny Clegg, born in Rochedale, UK, right outside of Manchester, was raised in Zimbabwe until eventually making a home out of South Africa.At age 14, Clegg began playing the guitar and took lessons from Charlie Mzila, a Zulu flat cleaner who played street music near his home.For the next two years, he learned the fundamentals of Zulu music and traditional Inhlangwini dancing.Together, Mzila and Clegg performed at various hostels and communities.However, not everyone accepted a white and black musician working as a team, and Clegg would often get arrested for trespassing on government property.Clegg found ways around this by performing for Zulu migrant labourers who lived all throughout Johannesburg and gained respect as a competent Zulu guitarist.
  
  Clegg's superior reputation reached Sipho Mchunu, a migrant Zulu worker, and they formed a musical partnership and friendship, which would eventually come to be known as Juluka, meaning "sweat" in Zulu.Often the subjects of racial abuse and censorship, they still managed to rise above the chaos to release four popular albums - "Universal Men," "African Litany," "Work For All" and "Musa Ukungilandela."Clegg and Juluka eventually split up in 1985.
  
  Soon after, Clegg formed a new group with Savuka, mixing African music with Celtic folk music and international sounds and were offered to perform on a mini tour throughout France.

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  Johnny Clegg and Juluka (South Africa)
  
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  Juluka is a band based in Johannesburg, South Africa, led by Johnny Clegg and Sipho Mchunu.The band formed in the early 1970s and split in the mid 1980's when Johnny embarked on a new career with his own band, Savuka.Juluka reformed last year and recorded their new album, "Ya Vuka Inkunzi" or "Crocodile Love".
  
  The band toured in 1998 to support this album.The songs are recorded in Zulu (indigenous South African language) and English.During the apartheid era in South Africa, Juluka and Savuka were instrumental in drawing international attention to the human rights injustices which were taking place at the time.The band is made up of some of the best live performance musicians in the South African music industry.
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  Johnny Clegg Bio
  
  Grew up in Zambia and South Africa.Learned Zulu dancing and street guitar at migrant labor hostels whilst at Jeppe Boys High School, Johannesburg.Lectured Social Anthropology at the University of Natal and the University of the Witwatersrand.Co-founded Juluka with Sipho Mchunu in the mid-70's.Their hits in South Africa included Woza Friday, December African Rain, Scatterlings of Africa, African Sky Blue, Universal Men, Digging for Some Words, Impi, Kilimanjaro, iBhola Lethu, Afrika (Kukhala Bangcwele) and scores of other great songs.Juluka split in the mid-80's and Johnny went on to form Savuka.Their hits included Great Heart, Asimbonanga, Cruel Crazy Beatiful World, The Crossing, Third World Child, Shadow Man, Dela, Take My Heart Away, I Call Your Name and more.In 1987 - 1989, Johnny Clegg & Savuka became the largest selling non-French band in France, overtaking the likes of Madonna, Prince and Michael Jackson.In 1996 Johnny reunited with Sipho Mchunu, marking the birth of a new Juluka project.The first major show was at the Standard Bank Arena in Johannesburg.Billed as "The Full Story", this show marked the rebirth of the new Juluka and after 18 months in studio the album "Ya Vuka Inkunzi" or "Crocodile Love" was released.He has worked on several film soundtracks, including Rain Man, Jock Of The Bushveld, Ferngully (with Thomas Dolby), The Power Of One, George Of The Jungle and many others.He has also collaborated with several other well known artists on various projects (most recently Sting's "Carnival" project for the Rainforest Foundation).Johnny received the Ordre de Chevalier des Arts et Lettres from the French Government and was nominated for a Grammy in 1993 for the Heat, Dust and Dreams album.He is married to Jenny with two children, Jesse and Jarron.He lives and works in Johannesburg South Africa.He has written several pieces on Zulu tradition and culture and some works on ethno-musicology.
  
  Sipho M'Chunu Bio
  
  Sipho co-founded Juluka with Johnny Clegg in the mid-70's.Originally a migrant laborer with a sound traditional music and dance background, Sipho taught Clegg much of the Zulu guitar he plays today.Sipho wrote and co-wrote many of the Juluka hits in the 70's and 80's.Sipho is well-known in South Africa and especially amongst the Zulu-speakers in Natal.He is a shining example of what can be achieved by someone coming from the rural community and is something of a standard-bearer for his People.When Juluka split in the mid-80's, Sipho went back to his farm in Kwa-Zulu and while taking care of the affairs of his house and village, recorded and toured with his own band, "Amabhubesi" ("The Lions").Sipho has lived through and mediated in more tribal conflicts than Geronimo.When his schedule allows, he gives lectures on traditional Zulu guitar styles at the University Of Natal and adjudicates in competitions for up-and-coming talent in the area.Sipho reformed Juluka with Johnny in 1996 and co-wrote and recorded "Ya Vuka Inkunzi" or "Crocodile Love".Sipho lives on his farm in Natal with his six wives and twenty-nine children and commutes to Johannesburg for rehearsals, recordings, video shoots and the like.
  
  Discography [under construction]:
  
  Johnny Clegg Anthology (Valley Entertainment, 2000)

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  To that end, Simon had already established contact with one Henry Rosenthal, who'd grown up listening to the Beatles and the Rolling Stones in a white, middle-classed section of Johannesburg, yet who had spent the last few years combining Zulu music with Western pop when producing local artist Johnny Clegg for Rosenthal's own record company, Music Inc.

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  Scatterlings of Africa - named after a song by South Africa's most famous musician, Johnny Clegg - are mainly Durban-based but will also feature three players from Cape Town and a trio of players based in Hong Kong.

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  Singer-songwriter Johnny Clegg, 56.

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  Singer-songwriter Johnny Clegg is 56.
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  Singer-songwriter Johnny Clegg is 56.

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  Singer-songwriter Johnny Clegg is 56.

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