South Africa - Zulu Choir - E Zulweni...Amazing!!!

[DeeBeeBlues1]

So wonderful!

[moumououou]

yeah when r they coming to mannheim

[DeeBeeBlues1]

Wonderful!!! I love it!

[vlampkin]

more great videos from philani10! wow! think you must be a deeply emotional european man with a musical ear. was reading isaacisaiah's comment and find it interesting the way that some jealous people try to downplay naturally good things that they can't even begin to fathom! i laughed at his pathetic attempt to downplay these talented singers! sounds like every other failed "musician" i have ever met. black people sing from a place that goes beyond what can be recorded on paper. thanks philani!

[TheHonestTheist]

wellington boots?

[tanyaradzwa100]

@TheHonestTheist watch this video and you will know why: "South Africa - Zulu Choir - Gumboot dance...Amazing" this is where Stomping came from.

[lucy9359]

@tanyaradzwa100 no stmping tom conners from Canada invented stomping lol!

[tanyaradzwa100]

@lucy9359 lol! I can't argue that one.

[Ezkeel]

Damn!!!

dey lukin frwesh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[FIRMAPPAREL]

i REALLLLLLLLLY LOOOOOOOVE the outfits....where can i get that made?

[IsaacIsaiahMusic]

What happened to the real South African sound, before the cheesy American Gospel influence?

[UnidosdaTijuca1]

Where do you think American Gospel got it's roots? ;)

[IsaacIsaiahMusic]

From a mixture of various African traditions, Irish folk music (pentatonic), and European church music (septatonic). Call and response originated from Africa, but vibrato singing style mainly derived from the European tradition. Rarely is there such vibrato in indigenous African singing. South African music also has an influence of European harmony, but did not have American 'blue notes' until the recent influence of American gospel evident in this video...

[IsaacIsaiahMusic]

...The overall scale of this music is the diatonic "major" scale, so introducing 'blue notes' sounds a little 'fake' (maybe because they are artificially forced into the scale). So, since the scale of this music is not pentatonic, the 'blue notes' don't really compliment underlying diatonic scale and thus sound unnatural or 'cheesy'. The blues derived from African people trying to locate the 'missing notes' between the pentatonic scale, when they heard European diatonic music.

A-?-CDE-?-G-?-A.

[lolaosin]

music is not static, its a dynamic cultural aspect. the same reason that american music has changed over the years as ppl hear things they like is the same reason south african sound has changed. expecting them to stay the same while everything changes is naive at best.

[phonophesile]

What are the lyric? what are they saying? I know they are singing about heaven, but I don't know what they saying about heaven..!