Penny Penny -Shaka Bundu' -Awesome Tapes Africa CD Grooves.land/Playthek

Details / Tracklist:

01. "Shichangani"

02. "Shibandza"

03. "Ndzihere Bhi"

04. "Dance Khomela"

05. "Shaka Bundu"

06. "Zirimini"

07. "Milandu Bhe"

08. "Shichangani (Remix)"

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Shaka Bundu by Penny Penny, released 7 November 2013, includes the following tracks: "Ndzihere Bhi", "Shaka Bundu", "Milandu Bhe" and more. This version of Shaka Bundu comes as a 1xCD. -

First time repress from Penny Penny's debut recording Shaka Bundu, recorded in 1994; the album that launched a 34-year-old Penny Penny aka Giyani Kulani Kobane from the streets of Johannesburg to the national political spotlight. The remarkable story of South African singer and dancer Penny Penny is fit for Hollywood. A nearly homeless janitor without formal education gets a record deal, becomes a multi-platinum selling pop star, plays stadiums across Africa, then builds a career as a popular politician for Nelson Mandela's African National Congress party. Penny Penny is a Tsonga who hails from the Limpopo Province in Northeast South Africa, near the border with Mozambique. Born in 1960, he was the last of his father's 68 children. A 2.1-meter (6'10") tall traditional healer (sangoma), Penny's father had 25 wives and was well-respected in the region. He lived a long life and passed away in 1966. Two months after Penny's father's death, the government forced many families to leave the area and resettle elsewhere. He and his siblings did not attend school because of the sudden turn towards poverty. The situation forced Penny's mother to take up work on a farm where Penny also began to work for R2.50 per month (25 cents in U.S. dollars) at the age of 10. In 1991, after years spent toiling as a laborer, gold miner, hawker and restaurant owner, Penny starting making demo recordings, which he sent to several record companies. He grew up dancing traditional dances like muchongolo, xichayichayi and xigubu. But few took him seriously and he did not get a record deal. Penny's style was new and strange, particularly relative to Tsonga disco (also known as Shangaan disco) at the time. It didn't help that Xitsonga, the language spoken by the Tsonga, was not widely understood and existed in a separate category in the music industry. (Anything a Tsonga musician played was called Tsonga disco despite Tsonga music?s continual evolution over the years. If a song is in Xitsonga, it is Tsonga disco.) Additionally, SABC?s langu

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