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Clegg has won numerous awards, both for his music and for his outspoken views on apartheid, so he is familiar to more than music fans alone. Various Clegg-written songs have been used in at least five film soundtracks, which makes his music familiar to an additional audience. Clegg was born in Bacup, near Rochdale, Lancashire, to an English father and Rhodesian mother. Already in his youth, Johnny Clegg, a white, English-speaking person with what he called a 'secular Jewish' upbringing in the UK, Israel, Rhodesia (present-day Zimbabwe), Zambia, and South Africa, became interested in Zulu street music and took part in traditional Zulu dance competitions. As a young man, in the early stages of his musical career, he combined his music with the study of anthropology, a subject which he also taught for a while at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, where he was influenced, among others, by the work of David Webster, a social anthropologist who was assassinated in 1989. Clegg formed the first racially mixed South African band, Juluka, with gardener and Zulu musician Sipho Mchunu. Because it was illegal for racially mixed bands to perform in South Africa during the apartheid era, their first album Universal Men received no air play on the state owned SABC, but it became a word-of-mouth hit. Juluka's / Clegg's music was both implicitly and explicitly political; not only was the fact of the success of the band (which openly celebrated African culture in a bi-racial band) a thorn in the flesh of a political system based on racial separation, the band also produced some explicitly political songs. For example, the album 'Work for All' (which includes a song with the same title) picked up on South African trade union slogans in the mid-80's. Even more explicit was the later Savuka album Third World Child in 1987, with songs like 'Asimbonanga' ('We haven't seen him'), which called for the release of Nelson Mandela, and which called out the names of three representative martyrs of the South African liberation struggle - Steve Biko, Victoria Mxenge, and Neil Aggett. Juluka were able to tour in Europe, and had two platinum and five gold albums, becoming an international success. Juluka was disbanded in 1986, when Mchunu was asked by his father to return home to look after the family cattle, although Mchunu made some solo recordings afterwards. Clegg went on to form his second inter-racial band, Savuka, continuing to blend African music with European, especially Celtic, influences. The Savuka albums Shadow Man (which sold 250,000 copies within a week after its release went on to sell more than 1,000,000 copies in France alone).
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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What a album...Again Mr Clegg take's on Politics and many subjects
close to all of us thoughout our lives.
This is a different Album from his last offering One life which has a more
african feel.
In Human he covers many topics from GAZA to CONGO for me this seems to have a real modern EDGE
and plenty of PUNCH i like every song...But im a clegg-savuka-jaluka fan
if you wish for a refreshing lift to make your life love's alittle better
this is IT a album of PURE GENIUS....This artist and his band are genius in
its pure form...Buy it This will make you feel Peaceful and Happy :)
Weldone Mr Clegg and Friends.
close to all of us thoughout our lives.
This is a different Album from his last offering One life which has a more
african feel.
In Human he covers many topics from GAZA to CONGO for me this seems to have a real modern EDGE
and plenty of PUNCH i like every song...But im a clegg-savuka-jaluka fan
if you wish for a refreshing lift to make your life love's alittle better
this is IT a album of PURE GENIUS....This artist and his band are genius in
its pure form...Buy it This will make you feel Peaceful and Happy :)
Weldone Mr Clegg and Friends.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
great!!!! a good mix of african chorus, rythm, and pop. cant not dance to this. seems lighter than last two cds, as in not as intense, more fun. will be great in the summer with the car windows down. thanks jc
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I love just about all the songs (only 1 isn't great, but is still good!).
I have the best of Johnny Clegg and Savuka, and this album will join it on constant rotation on my commute to work.
I have the best of Johnny Clegg and Savuka, and this album will join it on constant rotation on my commute to work.
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