Kwela is a pennywhistle-based street music from southern Africa with jazzy underpinnings and a distinctive, skiffle-like beat. It evolved from the marabi...
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Allen Kwela (September 10, 1936 in Chesterville, Durban – July 1, 2003) was a kwela and jazz guitarist from South Africa. He was raised around Durban...
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Tin whistle (section Kwela)
London, continue to record kwela music. Kwela sheet music is rarely published, and many of the recordings of founding kwela artists are out of print. One...
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Kwela Tebza is a South African Kwela musical group of three brothers, Mpho, Tebogo, and Tshepo Lerole. They play penny whistles. The trio has been performing...
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Township music (section Kwela)
music are mbaqanga, kwela, and marabi. Marabi evolved from jazz influence in the 1920s. Immigrants from Malawi developed the kwela sound by fusing Malawian...
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to fame after they released their singles "Ndihamba Nawe kuphela", "Kwela Kwela", "Sibongile", "Udakwa Njalo" . The group released their self-titled...
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Kiddie Kwela is a Philippine children's show and broadcast on TV5 which has run from November 25, 2008 to March 30, 2010. The show was presented by Bayani...
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Music of Malawi (section Kwela Music)
Mozambique influenced the fusion of music styles, giving rise to genres such as Kwela. In the colonial period, Malawi witnessed the emergence of few well-known...
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Kwela Books is a South African publishing house founded in Cape Town in 1994 as a new imprint of NB Publishers. In the first ten years it published several...
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