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South Africa Mourns 'White Zulu' Johnny Clegg

Anita Powell

   JOHANNESBURG - South African singer and musician Johnny Clegg, one of
   the loudest voices in pop during the anti-apartheid movement, is being
   widely mourned in the country following his death earlier this week.
   The so-called "White Zulu" -- so named for his use of indigenous South
   African music and dance -- passed away at age 66, after a battle with
   pancreatic cancer.

   Musician Sipho Mchunu was just 17 when he met the young man who would
   change his life -- and South Africa's music scene.
   Mchunu was walking down the street when Clegg, just 16, approached him
   and asked him to sing him a song. He did, and the rest, he says, is
   history: the two formed a band, Juluka, and became known for their
   inventive use of Zulu songs and dance. In 1990, they became the
   biggest-selling world music group on the planet.

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