Artist's albums
Awu Wemadoda
2023 · single
Run (Life is a Marathon)
2023 · single
Wawukhona Yini E New York (Henrik Schwarz Rework)
2023 · single
Waters of Hope
2022 · single
Ikhaya Nothando
2022 · EP
Ayikh' Indaw' Enjengekhaya (Henrik Schwarz Rework)
2022 · single
This Town
2021 · single
Rainforest
2020 · single
With God Everything Is Possible
2020 · single
Halo sana (Buya Mama)
2019 · single
Neria
2018 · single
Walking in the Footsteps of Our Fathers
2016 · album
Music From Inala: A Zulu Ballet
2014 · album
My Sugar
2014 · single
Always With Us
2014 · album
Singing for Peace Around the World (Live)
2013 · album
Ladysmith Black Mambazo & Friends
2012 · album
Spirit Of South Africa
2011 · album
Songs From A Zulu Farm
2011 · album
Kobuye Kulunge
2010 · album
My Dream - African Sounds
2008 · album
Ilembe - Our Tribute to King Shaka
2007 · album
Long Walk to Freedom
2006 · album
No Boundaries
2005 · album
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Biography
South Africa’s Ladysmith Black Mambazo was founded in the 1960s by Joseph Shabalala. Joseph used his hometown’s name, Ladysmith, to honor his family history. He added the word Black in reference to the black oxen, the strongest of all farm animals. Mambazo is the Zulu word for chopping axe, a symbol of the group’s vocal ability to clear the path to success. They have 19 GRAMMY Award nominations and 4 GRAMMY Award wins. Nelson Mandela called Ladysmith Black Mambazo South Africa’s Cultural Ambassadors to the world. It is a moniker the group members hold close to their hearts. Apartheid, the South African social system forced upon the country’s black majority to keep the white minority government in power. Ladysmith Black Mambazo followed a path of peaceful protest. Joseph, following the ways of Martin Luther King Jr and Mahatma Gandhi, wrote songs of hope and peace. When Nelson Mandela was released from prison, in 1990, he stated that Ladysmith Black Mambazo’s music was a powerful message of peace that he listened to while in jail. In the mid-1980s, singer/songwriter Paul Simon visited South Africa and added the group's harmonies into the famous Graceland album, a recording that introduced world music to mainstream audiences. Ladysmith Black Mambazo carries a message of Peace, Love and Harmony as they travel the world. They bring this message, in song and dance, to every theater they perform in. We hope you will join them as they sing their message.