Isicathamiya is an a cappella singing style anchored in Zulu culture - Copyright AFP Jaafar ASHTIYEH Isicathamiya is an a cappella singing style anchored in Zulu ...

On any Saturday morning before sunrise the crumbling YMCA on Beatrice Street near the Durban waterfront resounds with music and foot-stomping. Once this South African port city on the Indian Ocean ...

ASPEN ” There are probably more than a thousand groups in South Africa who sing isicathamiya, a native, a cappella style that gets traced back to the Zulu tribe. Every Saturday in most cities in the ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — The Ndlovu Youth Choir, which began in South Africa's rural Limpopo province and rose to international fame on America's Got Talent in ...

From as far back as the 1960s, the traditional music group has made most people dance and comforted hundreds of thousands. It was founded by Dr Joseph Shabalala to preach peace. Given the social ...

The wife of the late Joseph Shabalala, Thokozile, has expressed excitement that a film about the iconic isicathamiya group Ladysmith Black Mambazo has bagged its second international award at the Art ...

Joseph Shabalala, who helped introduce the sound of traditional Zulu music to the world, has died aged 78. The musician was best known as the founder and director of choral group Ladysmith Black ...

You just have to put two and two together. Zulu and Xhosa music from Southern Africa has been all about song for as long as any historian—academic or tribal—can recall. Ancient church music from ...

Every little detail counts in an isicathamiya competition: the harmony, the choreography, the costumes, the entrance on stage, the exit and, of course, the singing. On the recent Saturday night at a ...