Letta Mbulu
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Letta Mbulu is a South African jazz singer born in August 1947 in Soweto. She began her career as an adolescent in the 1950s, performing in the musical King Kong in South Africa and London alongside Miriam Makeba and Hugh Masekela. In 1965, Mbulu went into exile in the United States due to apartheid. In New York, she performed with Cannonball Adderley and Harry Belafonte before signing with Capitol Records. Mbulu released her debut studio album, Letta Mbulu Sings, in 1967 and followed with Free Soul in 1968. She contributed to the soundtracks for the productions Roots (1977) and The Color Purple (1985). Mbulu provided the Swahili introduction for the 1989 Michael Jackson single âLiberian Girlâ. She returned to South Africa in 1991 with her husband, Caiphus Semenya. Her later recordings included Sweet Juju (1985) and Culani Nami (2007).
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- Nobody Loves Me
- Learn To Love
- Welele
- Friends Are For
- Baby Girl
- Gumba-Gumba
- Where Does It Lead
- What More Could Be Right
- Selimathunzi
- Ade
- Only When You'Re Mine Again
- Olu Ati Ayo
- Setho
- Sinamanga (uMagebhula)
- Never Leave You
- I Need You
- Umoya by Letta Mbulu
- Now We May Begin
- Saddest Day
- Buza by Letta Mbulu
- I Can Depend on You
- I Won't Weep No More
- Reach Out And Touch by Letta Mbulu
- Baile Baneso
