In the photo from 2008, a smiling Shimmy Jiyane is holding a Grammy Award as he stands to the right of Nelson Mandela. To Mandela's left is a beaming Sipokazi Luzipo, who's grasping Mandela's hand.

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Getting together to experience music can feel transcendent, whether you're raising your voice in song at your place of worship or you're dancing all night long at the club. With History of House, a ...

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NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Shimmy Jiyane and Latroit about their new project to reimagine classic House tracks to tell the story of the roots of the genre – translated and sung by the choir in Zulu.

Tonight, cop a midwinter dose of jubilation courtesy of this colorfully attired 26-member South African chorus: The mellifluous traditional music known as isicathamiya, brought to the masses by ...

Joseph Shabalala is an international recording star now, but the leader of South African vocal group Ladysmith Black Mambazo recalls the 1960s, when the only way he could hear records was through the ...

When Soweto Gospel Choir singer Phello Jiyane heard she would be performing a show about house music, she was a little surprised. "You wouldn't expect to have that combination of a DJ and gospel ...