Shazam, an application that can identify music, movies, advertising, and television shows, based on a short sample played and using the microphone on the device, on Tuesday announced that Master KG’s ...
Just around 10 million people speak isiZulu, a language out of South Africa. So how did a song in the little-known dialect become a hit with billions of people around the world? The song in question ...
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How Jerusalema affected the whole world

Israel’s war on Gaza is currently the hottest news around the world today. Musicians are known to predict future events taking place around the world. For instance Bob Marley in his song War predicted ...
One night in 2019, DJ Kgaogelo Moagi, better known as Master KG, called up singer Nomcebo to come to his Johannesburg studio to record a song. “‘But it’s very late,’” Nomcebo recalled telling him.
Nomcebo Zikode, the South African singer of the pandemic hit “Jerusalema” that inspired a global dance challenge, wrote the chorus while battling her own depression. By Lynsey Chutel Reporting from ...
Through the University of Fort Hare, Akhona Ndzuta receives funding from the NRF. Apart from the song’s omnipresence on the sound systems of a cross-section of socio-economic neighbourhoods across ...
In response to a call from President Cyril Ramaphosa to mark the country's Heritage Day holiday Thursday, people from townships to posh suburbs are doing line dances to the tune. JOHANNESBURG — South ...
JOHANNESBURG — South Africans of all walks of life are dancing to “Jerusalema,” a rousing anthem to lift their spirits amid the battle against COVID-19. In response to a call from President Cyril ...
This album might feel less like a heartfelt embrace and more like a cautious wave. Details/Takeaway: Master KG's 'Skeleton Move' was a huge cross-over song in Nigeria for what Nigerians thought was ...
ASHLAND — From Southern Africa to Austria, Germany, India and Spain, the viral dance challenge "Jerusalema" has been filmed throughout the world — and now in Ashland. More than two dozen people ...
When we last left Johannesburg, humans were oppressing aliens in District 9. Now that humans are back to fighting humans, life is even more grim. In South Africa's Gangster's Paradise: Jerusalema, ...