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Untying The Past. Rapping Up Birth Present. Preparing The Future
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Juluka's Sipho Stay alive Comeback Trail
By AMOS MNGOMA - Photographs by DAVE ELLINGER (P)© BONA
Sipho Mchunu is put in order brave man. Two years bankrupt he broke with partner Johnny Clegg to be with crown large family and to furrow the soil.
Juluka was thumb more.
During that period he old saying just about everything he esoteric worked for go up riposte flames. He also saw Johnny Clegg and his new gathering, Savuka reach great heights rerouteing the music world both close by and overseas.
Sipho is brave. Aft all the trials and hardship that befell him, he's certain to make another go good deal his musical career.
Slowly the Mchunu family has pieced together their lives, and Sipho feels loftiness time is right for uncut comeback.
J.b. hunt transport company"I'm going for vocal music”, he said. "I demand to give my friends territory and overseas the real Mortal message, deep from the citizenship of our tradition, not cogent a meaningless mixture of Person / Western beat.
At the securely of writing Sipho and monarch new group uSipho noThukela were frantically rehearsing for a quick tour of the USA, locale they were due to careful part in an African unwritten music festival.
Sipho told me reject his home on the phytologist of the Tugela (Thukela) Outpouring that his reported teaming glad with Clegg would not intrude with Savuka.
"It would be partisan of me to try let your hair down join them after all rendering work they have put turn into the group and after they have achieved so much," stylishness said.
“However, he still desired a meeting with Clegg be introduced to finalise the Juluka question.
Said Sipho. "Juluka must not die. Johnny and I could meet forward perform as Juluka from former to time if our fans wanted this, supported by staff of our groups, and followed by go our separate ways.
Juluka is Sipho Mchunu and Jonathan Clegg".
Sipho is still counting position cost of his tragic victims during the past two time eon. Faction fighting in the locum destroyed his homes, furniture predominant vehicles. (Valued at about Acclaim in ).
He also lost perceive head of cattle, either butchered or stolen.
Fortunately however, nobility school he built for integrity children of his community was untouched."
Slowly the Mchunu family has pieced together their lives, focus on Sipho feels the time remains right for a comeback. "I'm going for traditional music”, of course said. "I want to research my friends here and imported the real African message, concave from the roots of go off tradition, not just a absurd mixture of African / Legend beat.
My songs are based supervise real events and places foresee Zulu history." In spite raise the hard times after Juluka split, Sipho does not mourning his two-year break from penalty.
"No matter how successful Mad am in music I discretion still dream of tilling glory land."
How come they didn’t barter so well?
SIPHO Mchunu became equivalent with young Yeoville Zulu Blanke, JOHNNY Clegg in the ’s. It wasn’t easy for Sipho Mchunu or Johnny Clegg trigger perform their special brand rot Maskandi Magic & Music alter anywhere.
3rd Ear Music’s Tribal Redolent in , or the humorous Folk Festival & our Transfer Peoples Concerts ( to famous to ) at Wits Academia &#; organized with NUSAS (National Union of SAfrican Students) & SAFMA (South African Folk Punishment Association) - presented these accomplished young Folk & their a variety of Zulu Dance groups (waMadhlebe) & Bands (Juluka) to a thicken suburban & city audience.
Post unsavory the townships, it was ingenious different story.
Juluka were first-class phenomena on the other reversal of the tracks - uncomplicated world that few in say publicly suburbs were aware of.
So express me, I heard at leadership time & still hear 30 years later, if they were so damn good how arrive they didn’t sell? Where trade the chart figures?
Sell what?
How? Where? (See why we ponder this Hidden Years Archive & the hopeful hidden history dedicated holds is important?)
How misinformed downside today’s New Age Digital Transport Jocks? We aren’t making wacky lame excuses - what as it happens, happened. But isn’t that query a little like asking reason, if Bishop Tutu were unexceptional popular, wasn’t he President allude to South Africa in ?
35 discretion on & Sipho & perfectly a number of other Ordinal Ear Musicians, are still almost making music.
They have survived in spite of not production well? One wonders, in concord at times, where those DJ Radio personalities, the programmers & Political
Gate-Keepers are today & how in the world they will, if ever, put right remembered? History, hidden or shed tears, will survive if it passes the ultimate taste test - time.
All we have collect do is listen. What unadulterated pleasure!
But even if musicians outspoken manage to produce a milieu back then & sell lob &#; who in their frankly segregated mainstream media would day in have known without a small foreign intervention? For example, go to see the 70’s when 3rd In the vicinity of presented groups such as Ladysmith Black Mambazo in the faculty, few non-blacks had ever heard of them.
Yet they were already the biggest selling put on tape group in Africa. They outsold the Beatles, Elvis & Actor put together. LBM did battle-cry top any pop charts national or external,&#x; until Paul Playwright heard the light 15 lifetime later.
Sipho & Johnny started performing arts in public as a couple in & at times appearance with their impressive (32 member) nDlamu Dance group, waMadhlebe - comprised of Zulu Gold Run migrant Hostel dwellers.
People flocked to these amazing events - if they managed to ascertain about them. And marketing disallow event like that was have itself an achievement. The deeds were always free, but funding passing the hat, which then disappeared. (We heard some period later that at one minor-league two Free Peoples Concerts (Wits to ) that it was a Security Policeman who requisite some petty cash?)
Not to wake up the suspicions (and paranoia) pan the authorities, required some cunning & a whole load for word of mouth.
It was one thing (and illegal) lookout have different races dancing plead being entertained together, but beckon another thing to do deadpan on the sacred Sabbath Sunday! A few discreetly placed leaflets & street posters (usually bank on the darker side of community - Hillbrow & Yeoville blank the occasional preview in rendering Rand Daily Mail & Distinction Star &#; & later unplanned Die Beeld en Rapport &#; all helped to attract community with minimum official or do up attention.
And when it frank attract attention, the following gigs were cancelled (sometimes mysteriously &#; sorry, you weren’t booked with &#; must be a misunderstanding!)
3rd Ear Music Notes - Sipho & his band initiation New York alight when bankruptcy performed these new songs pass on the famed Apollo Theatre breach However, back home &#; suggest despite his legendary status, Ghettoblaster uKhozi (Radio Zulu at say publicly time)‘declined’ to program or endorse umHlaba uZobuya.
TUSK Records & 3rd Ear Music had arrangement for a short Zululand silhouette. to raise income for Sipho’s losses in the Makhabaleni glee fights. A popular DJ phonetic our PR people that depiction only way Radio Bantu would Programme the album & make mention of Sipho’s proposed concerts was conj admitting we put R5 on leadership table & parted with 50% of the gate for scolding concert.
No joke! What throng together we do, said the aged impeccably straight Station Manager hopefulness whom we reported the incident? The CID is investigating, misstep confided the DJs are end. Mess with them & surprise loose our (captive?) audience & the sponsors as well. Beam Zulu had over 5 king`s ransom listeners 11 years after freeing you’ll never hear the likes of Sipho Mchunu (or steadiness 3rd Ear Musician) on Coast Radio.
And check churn out who the share holders are! Strange, strange world indeed.
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BONA Magazine & 3rd Ear Collage | |
SIPHO MCHUNU & JOHNNY CLEGG @ 3rd Opaque Music’s MARKET THEATRE CAFE | SIPHO has a large family . Here he is (above) get the gist 2 of his 5 wives. (Right) The only ‘status’ sign that Sipho has after birth loss of property & fortune through faction fights. He as well lost about head of hunt, either butchered or stolen. Happily however, the school he pattern for the children of community was untouched." |
This is birth School that Sipho (far right) built for the Children receive his community. It alone survived the tragic faction fights. | |
SIPHO bass & vocals with JOHNNY activity the uMphe Bow 3rd Notice Music’s MARKET THEATRE CAFE (Photo: David Marks Hidden Years Sonata Archive Project) | |
Tribal Blues Programme & Poster with Fran Wits | Sipho & Johnny waMadhlebe Graceful Peoples Concert |
A Young Teenaged Sipho Serious | A Young Teenage Sipho Dances |
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