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Indestructible

photo: performing onstage, male performer Mahlathini in tribal garb and three female musicians, dressed in original attire as young Zulu girls – but with red izicholo on their heads to signify they were now grown women: Nobesuthu Shawe, Hilda Tloubatla and Mildred Mangxoladetail from Mahlathini & The Mahotella Queens album Music Inferno: The Indestructible Beat Tour 1988-89

Some great answers in dismas' Ask Metafilter post about Antecedents of the 'worldbeat' guitar sound: "What e.g., Afro-pop artists from the 1980s should I listen to if I really like that sound?"

09/07/24
by taz

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