Nginje, by Dorothy Masuka

Nginje

by Dorothy Masuka

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2.	Mandela 05:13	info	buy track
3.	Nginje 05:03	info	buy track
4.	Manyere 05:41	info	buy track
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6.	Mzilikazi 04:56	info	buy track
7.	Yombela Yombela (2018 Version) 04:54	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 August 9, 2020

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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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