History Music / JohnnyClegg

* ProtestSong: Protest band. An interracial band was illegal in South Africa at the time. Naturally, plenty of ProtestSongs were made. Most notably "Siyayilanda", "Bullets for Bafazane", "Mana Lapho (Stand Your Ground)", "Work for All", "Gunship Ghetto", "Mdantsane (Mud Coloured Dusty Blood)", "Asimbonanga", "Third World Child", "Berlin Wall", "Talk to the People", "Cruel, Crazy, Beautiful World", "One (Hu)'man, One Vote", and "Inevitable Consequence of Progress".

* EpicInstrumentalOpener: "Colours of Change", which features a radically different techno opener. "Foreign Nights (Working Dog in Babylon) opens with a guitar solo that definitely qualifies.
* DarkerAndEdgier: "One Life", his first widely released solo album. It includes many more allusions to sex than Savuka did, and includes one of two swears in any of the songs. (In Zulu, however. The word is "demmet", which translates to "damn it"). "Crocodile Love" is also this considering it was made after Savuka was disbanded.

* LyricalDissonance: "Thamela (Die Son Trek Water)". While the music sounds upbeat, and one without either a translation or knowledge of Afrikaans wouldn't be able to tell the difference, the song is actually about a soldier drinking heavily while missing a loved one. The ending implies that he has completely given up hope.

* ProtestSong: The vast majority of the songs are political is one way or another. Most notably "Work for All", "Asimbonanga", "Third World Child", "Berlin Wall", "Talk to the People", "Cruel, Crazy, Beautiful World", and "Inevitable Consequence of Progress". "One (Hu)'man, One Vote" is more of a meta example.
--> Bathi "Sangena savuma thina, apha abazange bengena abazali bethu nabadala, bayasikhalela thina ngoba asina voti." (They say: "We have agreed to enter a place that has never been entered before by our parents or our ancestors and they cry for us, for we do not have the right to vote.")

* TearJerker: "Boy Soldier", a song about ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. "Thamela (Die Son Trek Water)" also qualifies if you know the translation.

* DarkerAndEdgier: "One Life", his first widely released solo album. It includes many more allusions to sex than Savuka did, and includes one of two swears in any of the songs. (In Zulu, however. The word is "demmet", which translates to "damn it")

* LighterAndSofter: Savuka in comparison to Juluka.

Johnny Clegg (Born June 7, 1953) is an English-South African musician. He is the leader of two now-disbanded bands, "Juluka", meaning sweat, and "Savuka", meaning peace. He continues touring with a different band, which is either nameless or simply "The Johnny Clegg Band". His music is an unparalleled type of Western pop/rock combined with traditional Zulu music. While never achieving high popularity in the US, his music was considered controversial in Apartheid South Africa, and is well-liked in South Africa today. He also has a huge following in France, of all places, where he is known as Le Zoulou Blanc (The White Zulu).

* NoodleIncident: The inspiration "Bullets for Bafazane" was kept one for a while.

* EpicInstrumentalOpener: Colours of Change, which features a radically different techno opener.

Read more at http://www.songlyrics.com/juluka/gunship-ghetto-lyrics/#kvXtY04jc7lUEbQL.99

* PrecisionHStrike: From "Gunship Ghetto". While nothing bad in comparison to ''plenty'' of other music, it's still a bit surprising to those used to the GoshDangItToHeck.

--> '''Clegg:''' Picture the end of a cycle. Here's the fire from Heaven. There's a tired planet closing down. No more news at 11.

--> Bathi "Sangena savuma thina, apha abazange bengena abazali bethu nabadala, bayasikhalela thina ngoba asina voti." (They say: "We have agreed to enter a place that has never been entered before by our parents or our ancestors and they cry for us, for we do not have the right to vote.)

* ProtestSong: The vast majority of the songs are political is one way or another. Most notably "Asimbonanga", "Third World Child", "Berlin Wall", "Talk to the People", "Cruel, Crazy, Beautiful World", and "Inevitable Consequence of Progress". "One (Hu)'man, One Vote" is more of a meta example.

* DarkerAndEdgier: "One Life", his first widely released solo album. It includes many more allusions to sex than Savuka did, and includes the only swear in any of the songs. (In Zulu, however. The word is "demmet", which translates to "damn it")

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Subverted. "New World Survivor" is a collection of cut songs from Savuka, which were given a ''very'' limited release.

* TitleTrack: "African Litany", "Scatterlings" "Third World Child", "African Shadow Man", "Cruel, Crazy, Beautiful World", "New World Survivor".

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Subverted. "New World Survivor" is a collection of cut songs from Savuka, which were given a ''very'' limited release.
* WhereTheHeckIsSpringfield: The locations mentioned in songs are fairly obscure to anyone not well-versed in world geography. Some of the more obscure places include Zaire, Mogadishu, Olduvai, Outeniqua, Montego Bay, and Makhabeleni.

* DarkerAndEdgier: "One Life", his first widely released solo album. It includes many more allusions to sex than Savuka did, and includes the only swear in any of the songs. (In Zulu, however. The word in "demmet", which translates to "damn it")

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Subverted. "New World Survivor" is a collection of cut songs from Savuka, which were given a ''very'' limited release.

* SocietyMarchesOn: Subverted. While songs about Apartheid South Africa are no longer politically relevant, the point of the songs was to make it irrelevant.

* ProtestSong: The vast majority of the songs are political is one way or another. Most notably "Asimbonanga", "Third World Child", "Berlin Wall", "Talk to the People", "Cruel, Crazy, Beautiful World", and "Inevitable Consequence of Progress". "One (Hu)'man, One Vote" is more of a meta-example.

** MultilingualBonus: "Thamela (Die Son Trek Water)" and "Faut Pas Baisser Les Bras" are in Afrikaans/Zulu and French/English, respectively.

* AfterTheEnd: Tough Enough, and possibly Missing and When The System Has Fallen.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: In Tough Enough
--> '''Clegg:''' Picture the end of a cycle. Here's the fire from Heaven. There's a tired planet closing down. No more news at 11

* ArsonMurderandJaywalking: In Tough Enough
--> '''Clegg:''' Picture the end of a cycle
Here's the fire from Heaven
There's a tired planet closing down
No more news at 11

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Johnny Clegg (Born June 7, 1953) is an English-South African musician. He is the leader of two now-disbanded bands, "Juluka", meaning sweat, and "Savuka", meaning peace. He continues touring with a different band, which is either nameless or simply "The Johnny Clegg Band". His music is an unparalleled type of Western pop/rock combined with traditional Zulu music.