One night in 2019, DJ Kgaogelo Moagi, better known as Master KG, called up singer Nomcebo to come to his Johannesburg studio to record a song. “‘But it’s very late,’” Nomcebo recalled telling him.
Nomcebo Zikode says the lyrics to the most Shazammed song in history came to her when she was ‘about to lose hope’ It started in December in South Africa, with a few lines of gospel sung in the deep, ...
End of the world as we knew it. The world is a mass graveyard filled with the souls of the dead and the living dead. Human cadavers. At night the hounds howl at the moon. First it was North Italy, ...
Cape Town — "Jerusalema ikhaya lami, Ngilondoloze, Uhambe nami, Zungangishiyi lana..." How many of you have heard these beautiful lyrics being belted out? When Limpopo-born music producer Master KG, ...
On my way to the supermarket last weekend, I met this drunkard who was singing aloud: Jerusalema Ikhaya Lami. It seems those were the only three words he knew from the song as he kept repeating them.
When coronavirus placed the world in lockdown, a gospel-influenced anthem with Zulu lyrics brought people together through social media, lifting spirits and instantly becoming a global phenomenon.