The Mahotella Queens have been in the music business for over 40 years, and helped reinvent South Africa’s urban music by developing a new kind of Zulu pop music (called Mbaganga).
The Queens sing live in the studio and tell Martha how their music has changed to reflect the new challenges facing women in South Africa.
With songs about finding a cure for Aids, their outrage at the problem of child rape, and a mother’s plea to her daughter to stop drinking because it’s ruining her life, the Zulu lyrics may be hard hitting, but the harmonies are uplifting.
Reign and Shine is released by Wrasse Records.
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