Nkabinde, Simon

Nkabinde, Simon
▪ 2000
“Mahlathini” 
      South African Zulu singer who was an accomplished proponent of the deep-voiced “groaning” style of black South African singing and the lead vocalist for the Zulu music group Mahlathini and the Mahotella Queens from 1964 to the late 1970s and again after the group reformed in 1984; often referred to as the Lion of Soweto, he frequently performed dressed in a traditional chief's regalia (b. 1938, Newcastle, Natal, S.Af.—d. July 27, 1999, Johannesburg, S.Af.?).

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