Hamba Nontsokolo, by Dorothy Masuka

Hamba Nontsokolo

by Dorothy Masuka

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1.	Hamba Nontsokolo (Live) 02:36	info	buy track
2.	Mhlaba 03:10	info	buy track
3.	Nolishwa 02:37	info	buy track
4.	Themba 02:52	info	buy track
5.	Five Bells 02:47	info	buy track
6.	Norah 02:06	info	buy track
7.	Ngihamba Ngedwa 02:43	info	buy track
8.	Lendaba 02:02	info	buy track
9.	Mama Le Wena 02:32	info	buy track
10.	Uyakhuluma 02:26	info	buy track
11.	Jambo Jambo 02:38	info	buy track
12.	Malle Shebeen 02:11	info	buy track
13.	Naledi 02:07	info	buy track
14.	Sitandwa Sam' 02:35	info	buy track
15.	Ndi Yagula 02:43	info	buy track
16.	Mama Ngi Niki 02:46	info	buy track
17.	Lenyalo 02:36	info	buy track
18.	Baya Goli 02:40	info	buy track
19.	Unamanga 02:32	info	buy track
20.	Hoenene 02:41	info	buy track
21.	Zono Zam 02:46	info	buy track
22.	El Yow (Phata Phata) 02:19	info	buy track

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Dorothy Masuka (3 September 1935 – 23 February 2019) was a Zimbabwe-born South African jazz singer. She was born in Bulawayo, the fourth of seven children and her mother was a Zulu woman while her father was a Zambian hotel chef. Still, she attended a Catholic school deemed good by the standards of education allowed to black people. Her family moved to South Africa when she was 12 due to her health. By the time she was 19, she was touring in South Africa with singers she had admired as a girl.

Masuka's music was popular in South Africa throughout the 1950s, but when her songs became more serious, the government began questioning her. Her song "Dr. Malan," mentioning difficult laws, was banned and in 1961 she sang a song for Patrice Lumumba, which led to her exile. This exile lasted 31 years in total during which she lived in Zambia and worked as a flight attendant. She returned to Zimbabwe in 1980 after independence. Many of her songs are in the Ndebele language or Sindebele languages.

In August 2011, Dorothy Masuka and Mfundi Vundla, creator of the popular South African soap opera Generations, confirmed plans to make a film of Masuka's life. The film would concentrate on the years 1952 to 1957.

On 27 April 2017, she featured in the concert "The Jazz Epistles Featuring Abdullah Ibrahim & Ekaya," at The Town Hall, New York City, opening the show and delivering "one passionate performance after another, warming up and winning over the crowd".

Dorothy Masuka died in Johannesburg on 23 February 2019, aged 83.

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released June 1, 1993

(P) and (C) 1993 Gallo Record Company (a division of Gallo Music Investments)

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Gallo Record Company (Arena Holdings) is the largest independent record label in South Africa.

We manage some of SA's biggest music icons - Lucky Dube, Dorothy Masuka, Mango Groove, Sipho "Hotstix" Mabuse and Idols winners Paxton, Yanga and Luyolo. ... more

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