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Mzwakhe Mbuli
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 2
Top works
- The voice of reason
- Before dawn
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 2,980
- Total plays
- 19,998
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Mzwakhe Mbuli, known as "The People's Poet", is a popular poet and mbaqanga singer in South Africa. "South African pop moves cozy up to African American notions of sophistication, and South African pan-Africanist moves graft a fabricated tradition onto a musical history with no parallel in Africa or anywhere else. Mbuli's fusions are more visionary and more local. Singing or chanting mostly in English or Zulu but occasionally in Xhosa or Venda, his relaxed <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Mzw
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- South Africa
- Place of birth
- Sophiatown
- Occupation
- musician
- Languages spoken
- English language
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- date of birth
- 1958-01-01
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