Umthombo Wamanzi

Ladysmith Black Mambazo • 12 songs • 45 min

Umthombo Wamanzi is an album by the South African isicathamiya group Ladysmith Black Mambazo. The album was recorded in May 1982, and released the next month. Whilst the group's previous output had been, for the most part, entirely composed by lead singer and founder Joseph Shabalala, Umthombo Wamanzi contained primarily traditional Zulu hymns re-arranged by Shabalala, such as "Uzube Nami Baba" and "Ungikhumbule". The members who sang in the Umthombo Wamanzi album were Abednego Mazibuko Jockey Shabalala Albert Mazibuko Jabulani Dubazana Headman Shabalala Fikile Groonwell Khumalo Russell Mthembu Joseph Shabalala. The album was rereleased by Shanachie Records in 1988. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umthomb...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)