Madosini Manqina - Queen of South Africa's Pondoland Music

[TheBicyclingman]

Is it or is her headgear flippin rockin! 

[sneakerzzz414]

im da kind of person who likes rock music and stuff like that. . but dude. . . this is beautiful! its so relaxing. . =) ps. . i just watched this video coz we had a homework bout music from diff. countries. . .=)

[empress2askari]

Ashe Manawanga! My apologies for this very delayed comment but you brought the truth & it was not appreciated. For those who need more here is a Afro Brazilian wisdom (paraphased) "Even if Portugal was the father - Afrika was the Mother lap/breasts on which Brazil was nutured." Even the martial science component comes from Angola - the N'golo and the very name of Queen/General N'zinga gives credence to the very basic movement in capoeira - the ginga. Asante for all of your research. Askari

[katievhoneychurch]

my g.grandmother was half mpondo,half british sad I never heard the music and don;t know of the culture.

[jhuklios]

why your grandmother said that, i dont understand

[katievhoneychurch]

@jhuklios

SAD not said.

my g,grandmother died a long time ago she was born in hlabatini /holy cross i was born in australia.I know nothing of my pondo ancestors.

[Inathi12]

Xhosa music at its best. hloniphani!

[Alphaleonys]

Madosini Manqina - Queen of South Africa's Pondoland Music

[Alphaleonys]

Madosini Manqina - Queen of South Africa's Pondoland Music

[dsimango]

just cant stop crying oh what melody. dsimango maluleke

[mycompasstv]

love it, amazing!

[davewaugh1]

She's incredible, we need more videos like these on youtube, too few traditional music genres of South Africa are documented like this. This is valuable resource for anyone interested in SA's cultural heritage.

[Ntoshh]

hi there ,

This woman is the custodian if i must say of Xhosa traditional music,

She is South African and the instrument she is playing is very symbolic in our culture(Xhosa) She is legendary if i must put it that way young female Xhosa singers look up to her also read the commentary on the screen it will assist you

[Mbeebeelove]

You don't have to speak french or creole in South Africa so that is irrelevant...Creole, is a stable language that originates from a mixture of various languages. Perhaps in the Creole rbutterlove speaks there are some words she can understand. So it is possible. Creole is different where ever you go, but somehow it always ties back to Africa.

[Mbeebeelove]

1:59 reminds me of Mongolian throat singing. I'm sure the Mongols got that from their African roots naturally.lol (^__ ^)

[BINTUO]

God damn if you dont know nothing you must shurt up that is not Mongolian that's Africa

[Mbeebeelove]

darling I said it "REMINDS me of Mongolian throat singing" if you understand ENGLISH! The word "REMIND"

[rbutterlove]

Wow listening to her and some words i actually understand from Haitian creole

[BINTUO]

both of you shurt up that is not haitian that is South Africa

[Mbeebeelove]

you have a really bad attitude and rbutterlove said she can understand SOME words because she know Haitian Creole. You need to improve your English.

[sekonyela]

how can she understand that, we dont speak french or Creole in South Africa ans non of our langueges are similar to that.. well, if she/he understands there is no quarell about that , but the question is how is that possible?

[rbutterlove]

Proves idiots will always remain idiots, keep your comments to yourself Bintou, you are by far the most ignorant person i've ever met. Read, understand before commenting on aynones posting. Haitians are much like Africans idiots, are roots are based in Africa.

[cosmicskydaddy]

man this is tremendous music,thanks!

[Manawanga]

The Berimbau is a native instrument in Southern Africa. It is especially played in Swaziland and Angola. The whole dance is called Capoeira Angola because the slaves who brought these principals to Brazil came from Angola. Samba music is also from Angola. There is an indigenous form in Angola called Sembe. Same beat! One letter different in the name. Many of these contributions were denied because in order to justify slavery it was necessary to make Africa seem like a place without any culture.

[centaurdo]

Beautiful.

[teimosia]

Brings tears to my eyes ! Our brazilian roots are in Africa !

É preto, é preto, é preto, kalunga !

[kofi8888]

from home

[abbagato]

IfreeCan!!!

[nofoodordrink78]

so can the 'brazilians' ease up now and just admit the origins of what they like to claim as 'theirs' ??

This here's as african as the origins of 'speech' and 'consciousness'...Recognise!!!

[cesarpierre]

capoeira was create on brasil, its a mix of the african cultures of the slaves.

berimbau the instrument is very popular in all world, India for example have berimbau too.

sorry my english

[ditocerto]

Cesar How many people from India were sold to Brazil as Slaves? Come on man, wake up! Stop feeding this racist society who claims Africa has not contributed anything to the new World.

[cesarpierre]

first sorry my english,CAPOEIRA was creat in Brasil,by slaves from AFRICA,I said "capoeira was create on brasil,its a mix of the african cultures of the slaves.",....

[BINTUO]

you shurt up if you are slave not slave no , the singer is not the slave , you must shurt up of your speech slave

[rbutterlove]

before you go calling people names you should check your spelling idiot. get a dictionary, you do not make one bit of sense

[Jacque6548]

@BINTUO well dang!?

[cesarpierre]

so,i'm not feeding anything racist,acutaly is the oposity,i'm saying africa is fundamentaly for Brasil culture, just for example

people think capoeira and berimbau is the same thing,the use of berimbau in capoeira is very new.BERIMBAU have the roots in africa,but in Brasil we incorporated in our culture and we change some aspects and the way of playing

[ditocerto]

I misunderstood you...I apologize.

[bellis433]

Nearly every continent has its own simple string instrument. It is one of the most simple non drum instruments in existence. It could have been developed in both Africa and Brazil natively. Although I am not closed to the fact that the Brasilian Berimbau could have not originated in Africa...

[Steadno]

Yea, seems that anything Africans create other folks want to take credit for.

[kairitukega]

Respect!!!!!!!!!!

[steeloavenger]

beautiful simply beautiful!

[mizanmedia]

i've heard that the berimbau came from south africa as a complete instrument during the middle passage. its really awesome to see the instrument known in capoeira circles as a berimbau in its original context and to discover that it survives through a line of female instrumentalists.

[segaravanne]

what instrument is that .......it looks like an addapted berimbau kinda thing

[segaravanne]

the first thing she plays

[whyaskme12]

ndiyawuthanda lo mculo ndingawu fumana kanjani ngoba ndiwu thanda. undi khumbuz'ekhaya.

i love south african i use to live in eastern cape as the caall it now emampondweni e BIZANA

[7two]

saw her on 2 nights ago_

too illing_ she shook my hand_

maybe some o that genius will rub off me_

[CHAMADA21]

breath taking.

[KWINSA]

can you also post ZOLANI MKHIVA's videos

[KWINSA]

mandithi enkosi mntam ngofaka lento kudala ndimfuna umculo weli khehlekazi

[stgstgstg]

thank you!

[gregoryburrows]

Absolutely beautiful--thanks!

[DragonWorshipper]

very nice

[Nqanqarhu]

Beautiful music.Great video.