Musa Ukungilandela is a

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from

Juluka Juluka was a South African music band formed in 1969 by Johnny Clegg and Sipho Mchunu. means "sweat" in Zulu, and was the name of a bull owned by Mchunu. The band was closely associated with the mass movement against apartheid. History At th ...

, a

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n band led by

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-born

Johnny Clegg Jonathan Paul Clegg, (7 June 195316 July 2019) was a South African musician, singer-songwriter, dancer, anthropologist and anti-apartheid activist, some of whose work was in musicology focused on the music of indigenous South African people ...

and the Zulu

Sipho Mchunu Sipho Mchunu (born 1951, Kranskop, South Africa) is best known for his work in the band Juluka from the 1970s to the 1980s. Mchunu's compositions, vocals and guitar work brought Zulu folk styles such as maskanda and mbaqanga to a wider audience b ...

. It was produced by

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and released in 1984, at a time when South Africa was under

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, which banned inter-racial bands. The album was the first to include what would later be called "Zulu rock", and marks the first time the artists used

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s. The song ''Ibhola Lethu'' featured soccer game commentaries from Nelson Nkululeko Guimede. The album was also the last collaboration between Johnny and Sipho for 13 years. Sipho, who had a number of wives and children, decided to return to his farm with his family. Johnny Clegg would then form another band,

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, which would catapult him to international fame, but the two artists would finally reunite in 1997 for a new album, ''

Crocodile Love ''Crocodile Love'' is the final studio album from Juluka, a South African band led by Johnny Clegg and Sipho Mchunu Sipho Mchunu (born 1951, Kranskop, South Africa) is best known for his work in the band Juluka from the 1970s to the 1980s. ...

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Track listing

#"Nans'Impi" #"Zodwa" #"Izinhlobo Nezinhlobo Zabantu" #"Thoko" #"Akanaki Nokunaka" #"Trouble Musa Ukungilandela" #"Wangizonda" #"Kancane Kancane" #"Ngeke" #"Ibhola Lethu"

Personnel

- vocals, guitar *

- guitar, percussion, vocals * Gary Van Zyl - bass guitar, percussion, vocals * Derek de Beer - drums, percussion, vocals * Cyril Mnculwane - keyboards, vocals * Scorpion Madondo - flute, saxophone, vocals {{Authority control Juluka albums 1984 albums