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Sibongile Khumalo

This South African Songstress was featured in the South African Music Documentary "Amandla!" Sibonghile Khumalo is one of the leading ladies in the South African tradition of heavenly voices. She has an excellent album out called "Live at the Market theatre" which is a tribute to South African musicians including;Miriam Makeba, Prince Lengoasa, Bheki Mseleku, Caiphus Semenya, Dorothy Masuka amongst others. She is trained as an opera singer and brought that vibe to these recordings. On one of the tracks on the album she switched from vocals to violin the result sounded celtic.

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Zola

There are at least 2 artists/bands called Zola:
1. a south african musician; 2. a spanish indie pop sextet from Barcelona. 3 a British math pop group
1.Bonginkosi Dlamini, aka Zola, is a South African poet, actor, and kwaito musician. He also presents Zola 7, a television show named for him, on SABC 1.
Born in the Soweto ghettos of Johannesburg, South Africa, Dlamini spent his formative years in one of the roughest and notorious ghettos around, Zola, hence his name. Unemployment, alcoholism, and single parent families are the norm in Zola.

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Vusi Mahlasela

South African Singer Vusi Mahlasela, born 1965 in Pretoria, is known as "the Voice" and hails from the township of Mamelodi. He has been featured in the South African music documentary "Amandla!" and has lent his vocal skills to the soundtrack of the Academy Award winning South African Film "Tsotsi". Discography
When You Come Back 1992
Wisdom of Forgiveness 1994
Silang Mabele 1997
Live at the Bassline 1999
Miyela Afrika 2000
Jungle of Questions (with the Proud Peoples Band) 2000
Soundtrack: Amandla!: A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony 2002

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Blunted Stuntman

English born, he has strove to push the new beats in South Africa, obvious by his recent set at the Oppikoppi Music Festival. Blunted has played there for 13 years and it was a blast of ghetto funk with old African vocal samples flowing through the basslines of the dub side of the current UK Funky hype. Blunted Stuntman's debut mix CD has been released and features a 2CD collection of South African and International Breakbeats. 'Breakin' ZA' features Blunted Stuntman's own productions "Portraits in Sound" and "This Is My Life" and you'll probaby be able to hear them right here!

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Munkinpure

Munkinpure is an Indie/Rock band originally from Johannesburg, South Africa, who slowly but surely seem to be turning the original scene into a danceathon between Rockers, Hoppers and House junkies. For more information see the below links - www.munkinpure.com
www.twitter.com/munkinpure
www.myspace.com/munkinpure
www.facebook.com/munkinpure
www.music.nme.com/munkinpure
www.reverbnation.com/munkinpure

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The Mahotella Queens

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Synkro

There are two artists with this name: (1) SYNKRO (also spelled S.Y.N.K.R.O) is a dubstep producer & DJ based in Manchester, UK. He has releases on Z-Audio, Smokin Sessions, On The Edge, Mindset. He describes his music as being deep and bass-driven, and has been played on various radio stations such as Rinse FM, React FM, Frequency FM & BBC Radio1.
myspace (2) Synkro si an industrial/breakcore/experimental artist.

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Van Coke Kartel

Van Coke Kartel is a three-piece rock band. Francois van Coke - Guitar / Vocals
Wynand Myburgh - Bass
Justin Kruger - Drums Our debut album will be released at the end of November 2007. The album
was recorded at Bellville Studios and produced by Theo Crous. In 2007 Fokofpolisiekar decided to take a break. This break gave us
(Francois & Wynand) the opportunity to express our mutual musical interests and we started writing songs together for the first time in years.

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Simphiwe Dana

Born and Raised in the Eastern Cape, her name means ‘gift’ and many of her fans would agree that she is just that, a gift to the SA music scene. In a short period of time this Soul Sistah has become one of South Africa’s favourite daughters. Her music has a fresh sound and her unique voice complements it perfectly. Her debut album Zandisile took a lot of music lovers by surprise. It is modern South African music with a timeless revolutionary message.

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Powerage

Powerage was one of the first punk bands to come out of South Africa, with songs against apartheid, the a.w.b., and everything that they saw wrong in the world. Through the time Powerage was together the line up changed several times. This is defenitely one of the bravest punk bands to have come out of the 80s
Powerage is also the name of a Scandinavian band.