Thandiswa Mazwai: Tiny Desk x globalFEST
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- čas přidán 31. 03. 2024
- In 2021, the Tiny Desk x globalFEST series was created to promote international music discovery. For the last three years, artists from around the globe have performed Tiny Desk (home) concerts from their respective countries, but for the first time this year, artists performed at the Tiny Desk at NPR's headquarters.
Suraya Mohamed | April 1, 2024
Thandiswa Mazwai is one of post-apartheid South Africa's most influential musicians. For nearly 30 years she has championed a kind of dance music called Kwaito. The South African genre mixes a variety of rhythms and influences including hip-hop, reggae, jazz and house music.
This phenomenal set starts with “Nizalwa Ngobani?”, translated from the Xhosa language for “Do you know where you come from?” It’s dedicated to the ever-resilient people of South Africa. “I want to say to my people at home, thank you,” she says. “I am known worldwide because of you.” After, she sings a love song, “Ingoma” with the memorable hook “Ngoma we, ngoma we, ngoma we,” which loosely translates to “You are a song that I never get tired of.”
She dedicates the next song, “Children of the Soil,” to all the people around the world who find themselves struggling for freedom. “This is our time to use our voices,” she affirms. “This is the time for us to fight for freedom, wherever it is in the world.” “Children of the Soil” will be featured on her soon-to-be-released new album, Sankofa. And she finishes this set with the powerful “Abenguni,” and the catchy upbeat tune “Lahl’umlenze,” with its resilient hook: “Why does it matter how I dance?”
SET LIST
“Nizalwa Ngobani?”
“Ingoma”
“Children of the Soil”
“Abenguni”
“Lahl’umlenze”
MUSICIANS
Thandiswa Mazwai: lead vocals
Lungile (Lulu) Maduna: drums, vocals
Sunnyboy Mthimunye: guitar
Tendai Ali Shoko (Shox): bass
Thabang Tabane: percussion
Xolani Thabethe: keys, vocals
TINY DESK TEAM
Producer: Suraya Mohamed
Director/Editor: Kara Frame
Audio Technical Director: Neil Tevault
Series Producer: Bobby Carter
Videographers: Kara Frame, Maia Stern, Joshua Bryant, Elizabeth Gillis
Audio Engineer: Becky Brown
Production Assistant: Elle Mannion
Photographer: Zayrha Rodriguez
Creative Designer: Jackie Lay
Tiny Desk Team: Ashley Pointer, Hazel Cills
Executive Producer: Suraya Mohamed
globalFEST Team: Isabel Soffer, Bill Bragin, Shanta Thake, Zion Jackson, Ian Thake
Series Creators: Bob Boilen, Stephen Thompson
VP, Visuals and Music: Keith Jenkins
#tinydesk #nprmusic #thandiswamazwai - Hudba
Fellow South Africans are we all here?!!🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦
Ohh yeah we never miss our own❤️
Just arrived. Sorry I’m late
sikhona❤😭
Ndiyaziqhenya ngawe muntu wami🎉🎉🎉
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South Africans, I'm taking attendance. Please raise your hand when you hear your name! 🫡🫡
hand up
Present!
💯
✋
Wola lapho
As a Xhosa South African watching my language being represented to the fullest makes me so emotional, thank you mama Mazwai.🖤 CC
singazilibali mntase
@@xoliswanxam5489 jonga, indenza ndi believe kwamna ba vele sithi amabhoza🤣 makwande man
Zimbabwe approved.. we love u we never forget those Bongo Muffin days 🇿🇼
Fire 🔥 days 😮😅
was looking for such a comment.
Those were the days...
Right missed her voice glad she is still singing !
And we love you too❤️😍
oh my mommy. im immensely proud of you. lets go get em
❤
Been waiting for this performance after you announced🎉🎉🎉
❤❤❤❤❤
All love, she did amazing & she's always been ❤️🇿🇦🔥🙌🏾
The way you celebrate your mum is so beautiful, nana❤❤❤❤
Tiny desk was so lucky, this woman is a living legend
I concur ❤️
I agree 👑🇿🇦
True that her voice doesn't age
Angelic voice 😢
Louder!
@@mashudumamuthamani8231 it doesn't age, it matures like wine 🍷
I'm Irish and I just love good music...no matter where it's from. This is magic music to me, I love it. This lady is fantastic, and the musicians behind her are amazing. I would listen to this all day long. Thank you Tiny desk for another gem!
Am Nigerian🇳🇬 Just stumbled upon her tiny desk concert. Am an advocate of singing in our natural language. That first song is so nice❤️❤️❤️
The song is from her 1996 debut album called Zabalaza. Listen to that album it's beautiful from start to the end👌🏽🔥🔥🔥
Namibia 🇳🇦 checking in because Thandiswa is for all of us Africans
From Uganda , for us all Africans❤❤❤
❤️❤️❤️
Nah just for us South Africans. Y’all like to steal from us🙄
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We welcome you Namibian Queen ❤
Kenyans Checking in because we love SouthAfrica!! 🇰🇪 ❤
We love u too❤
Karibu Dada wangu
We too love Kenya ❤
South Africa loves Kenya! ❤
Karibu my sister 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦
Basotho in the house, we can't miss on action like this , absolute greatness!!!
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Re teng,ngoaneso. Re a tshehetsana.
I am from St. Lucia in the Caribbean and this music as had such a positive impact on me since viewing and discovering. An amazing artist .. happy I found her. I listen to her everyday now. More blessings and light to the South African people :)
Who still goes insane when they hear Ingoma? What a Classic.
Every Time 🥺❤ Lapho Ndili 2k 😂
Drives me crazy 😂🥺🤌🏽😍
Everytime she sings she give me goose bumps🔥🔥🔥
More than 90% of Black South Africans can speak and understand English but they choose to sing in their African languages. From Amapiano to Every genre. Embrace your culture the Ancestors are proud
No lie! That makes your land special and blessed 🙏.
The languages carries our spirit. Just peaking eg isiXhosa the sound of the cliques and is rythm in itself. South african indegenous languages carries a spiritual rythm n trans. Poetry Storytelling singing. An average south african has sung in school or church choir.
It's tough being God's chosen people but we make do :D
No lie, and I get much better audience reception when singing in ISIXHOSA❤
Love this.
Her raw vocals capture the struggle and tell a story of the past and present. Such a talent 🇿🇦
No one talks enough about how cool the drum guy's top is. 🙌🏾✨️
TinyDesk has no idea what treasure they have bought here.....
Thandiswa, legendary moment here.....
I totally agree 👍🏾
I wouldn't have said it any better!
I think they do. Hence they chose her to display her ART. NPR never disappoints. 💐
I’m Black American. First time hearing this artist. Her voice, her style, her creativity is simply enchanting. Thank you Tiny Desk for showcasing Amazing Talent 🥹
South african foke music, we call her style afro pop this side
African authentic, Xhosa in origin like Mama Meriam Makeba. Camagu Locqueen
Check out The Soil, Samthing Soweto, obvious Miriam Makeba, Oliver Mtukudzi (Zimbabwe) and Siya Makuzeni. Noora Noor (Somali living in Norway) is excellent also (album: Soul Deep).
There’s more where she came from
You should check out Sinphiwe Dana, Zahara, Siphokazi, Camagwini if you like the vibe of this music. All Xhosa soulful artists.
I’m Zambian 🇿🇲 and really appreciate our African divers and rich cultures ❤️❤️❤️
OMG I am sooo proud and glad that the world is finally waking up to see the beauty and talent bred in South Africa🥹 I wanna cry😭
Being South African is a flex 🇿🇦
Well Said! SHATE! SHATE! SHATE!
A big one at that
Lol 😆 True
😂say it again
Literally! 😮💨
Now all we need is a Ringo Madlingozi Tiny Desk Concert and my life will be complete 🤞🏾
For real
Yesss!!
And Mandisi Dyantyis
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Say that ma'am!!!!
Am i the only one that got goosebumps listening to the 1st song 🇿🇦
I love it with all my heart ❤️
I love it with all my heart ❤
That song always brings tears to my eyes and motivates me. whenever ifeel like giving up she says "Nizilibele uba nizalwa ngobani"yoh guys this song so
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😎
My fellow South African come lets gather here, i love you Thandiswa you are soo gud❤❤❤
Thandiswa should have won a Grammy a long time ago. She’s absolutely the best👑🇿🇦
The Grammy is so complicated , it plays dirty, some good artists don't have even one but the Grammy doesn't own good music , as long an artist loves what he or she is doing , the Grammy is nothing , music cannot be determined by a Grammy , some artists are put down because they don't have a Grammy , artists should be left to fly without thinking about the Grammy ❤❤ let her fly high because we know she doesn't need a Grammy to be great❤❤❤❤
Hello there, I fully concur with you, but I stand to be corrected her first silo album, did win Kora Award, that is equivalent to Grammy. I never get tired of listening to her music.❤❤
Speak@@mugumearnold6523
ftsek!
We can take the one from Tyla and give it to her.... no comments pliz we just passing the message
American girl here! No clue what shes saying, however
nothing but chills running throughout my body!!! Much love & respect to Africa!!!
turn on captions if you haven't yet and rewatch it
they are translated in English
trust me some south africans don’t understand either, but the sheer beauty of the music takes one THERE.
@@someonesson5928 thanks for the tip!
I think she is a Zulu , or a swana don't. Know
This is probably one of the absolute best Tiny Desks imo ever!!
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Brown skin baby Checking in from the US, I don't know who my ancestors are but I know where my heart lives. I love you, all people's, languages, spiritualities, colors and nations of Mother Africa. ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼 UNIFY
We love you sister 🫶🏾
Sending love to you from South Africa ❤
I share these sentiments!
Camanguu 🙏
Your new name is Athandwe(beloved) Africa is your home any time. 🇿🇦
To the individual who is reading this please quit overthinking everything every day and night . Stop obsessing over your failures. Stop doubting yourself and seeing the greatness in everyone else but you. You are better than that. You deserve more. Start showing up differently to yourself. Believe in yourself. God wont ever hand you something you cant handle. You are a star in this world . may God Bless whoever sees this
😔
Thank you for this beautiful message 💖
I needed this thank you for being a wonderful person
Amen❤
Thank you ,needed to hear this
I am colombian and This is amazing! ❤thank you for sharing so much power in This music
South Africa is very rich in indigenous music that is yet to be showcased .. the popularity of Amapiano has led to us undermining how deep our pool of music go... Wish there can be More of this pls.
Speaking as an outsider, amapiano led me to discover all the other genres and styles of music SA has. I have learned about SA history and language all because of amapiano.
Check out the music of Moses Molelekwa and Sibongile Khumalo
NPR, thank you. Thandiswa Mazwai has gained a new fan from the United States.
Been doing this for over 20yrs now she is indeed a living legendd
WORD.....GOT 2
oh, i wish to be you and discover her for the first time again
She's our living legend in South Africa
Same!
20 years later, Zabalaza is still one of the best albums produced in SA.
Highly agree!!!
Agreed 1000 percent!
💯💯💯💯💯💯
Wished she finished with the title song but nonetheless it was a good performance.
No skip
Eswatini 🇸🇿🇸🇿🇸🇿 we love to see it
Africa represented to the fullest!!!....mob love from 🇰🇪
Im challenging myself everytime my comment gets liked I'll watch this video again
Go!
You better come watch again 😂
How about when it gets disliked?
Sive come watch
Let's get the views up on this one!
She’s not just a singer, she is a healer 🤍
Absolutely
Totally Agree!A Healing Legend indeed!!!!!❤Indigenous Knowledge Systems Viva!!!!AFRICA VIVA🎉
I love how the drummer is in his element .
Mozambicans we love you, we love South Africa…
This woman is 48 years old and still looking this gorgeous!!!!!!!!
SHE. IS. GORGEOUS!
And sounding even more amazing than she looks. She's evergreen😍
Black don't cracks honneeeeyyy😊
Overweight though
She's looking very gorgeous but hay ikhulile intombi endala guess it's because haven't watched her in a long while but also hearing her age I understand
What an experience! 🥹🇿🇦
Proudly South African Button ↙️
Thank you Thandiswa for raising the flag high🇿🇦 we love you as South Africans_ Durban is my city
LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING ABOUT AFRICANS AND DRUMS!!!
I was hypnotized for a minute there😮.
Why am I crying , it’s 7:34am South African time. I’m stuck in traffic going to work and this just made me appreciate my life more. We are all blessed in different ways , God makes no mistakes. Glory be to God and Long life to our ancestors. Never ever forget where we come from.
CAMAGU 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿🔥🔥🔥🔥
Can we talk about lobola mel 😍😂
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Most definitely 🔥
May the Lord bless you and keep you all your life Melissa! Keep Beholding Him and keep sharing His goodness to the world. Love from the Free state Bloemfontein 🇿🇦🕊️
Am from Sierra Leone I love South African music stand up Africa
With love from South Africa 🇿🇦 all the way to Sierra Leone🇸🇱 ❤❤❤❤
Afric....is amazing....the continent is where God's visit and dwell...
That album is probably top 3 South African albums of all time. It's perfect.
MAN!!!!!! angazi mina.... kodwa, I'll be coming back here every now and then. love this lady so much
To the person who chose Thandiswa we can’t thank you enough 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽
The CZcams algorithm never disappoints!!!! We love this woman in Kenya 🇰🇪 From South Africa 🇿🇦 to the world 🌎 Bless you Thandiswa!!!!!! Forever talented ❤🎉
A legend indeed. I'm so happy listening to her right now. Ingoma has a special place in my heart. 🔥🔥🔥
Loads of love from 🇰🇪
Im fighting brain cancer on my own with my two young children this song is really the only thing keeping me from losing it. 🙏🙏🙏
God be with you
Amen. Thank you very much. May God bless you all the days of your life. Have a Blessed day!@@nae1487
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Keep the faith and the fight going sending❤ strength 💪 and courage over u....
Praying for you ❤
That ululation after Ingoma hit my core❤❤❤
I’m not even South African I’m Nigerian and I was so happy to see this wow🥹❤️❤️
We are ONE...love from SA❤😊
We have Naija in South Africa✌💯❤🤣😂
one soul🙏🏿
❤❤❤❤
Your Sister, why wouldn't you be!?
Mosotho based in Washington checking IN as I should.
Ao ngwaneso, ke thabela ho utlwa hore honale Basotho di bakeng tse kgolo jwalo hle 🥹❤️
"Ndinebhongo, ndiyaziqhenya ngawe mzontsundu" 🔥🔥🔥 KingTha 👑👑👑
The first song in essence is saying you’ve forgotten who birthed you, you were birthed by legends! 😭🤍🤍🤍🤍
Glad King Tha is getting the recognition she deserves its been a long time coming. One of our GOATs
Are we not gonna say anything about the percussionist?🔥🔥🔥
Listen!!!!!!
Best rythmns and fill ins❤❤
Anything about the percussionist
@@rodox_sk8 Lol been looking for this comment
He's fire!!🔥🔥 🔥
Leaving a comment so whenever someone likes the video I can come watch it again❤
❤️🔥
Iza
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😂😂 That's my thing.... I always do this
Oh wow, bless your comment. You have mine.
Music is such a universal language,you don't even need to understand what she's saying... MUSIC IS A FEELING. Got to love Thandiswa🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦
She looks like she is having such a great time! Stellar performance from our legend 🙌🏾🇿🇦
If you're south african, like this to mark the register❤
I have NEVER CLICKED ON A VIDEO SO QUICKLY!!! We love you Thandiswa!!! Thank you for continually putting us on the map with your impeccable quality 😭🥳🔥🙌🏾 🇿🇦!!!
Same Yho 😂😂😂 IMMEDIATELY YES
lol... well done you.
Came running 🏃 🏃♂️ 🏃♀️
Lol 🤣😆🤣 u not alone
Eastern Cape where you belong , beautiful Xhosa singer ❤❤❤🇿🇦
Lifikile ithuba lokuzi veza ndingubani na…… ndizibike inkaba yam, ndibange umlilo ka Tatam, amanzi ka mamam ❤️ I’m falling from the stars into my mothers belly …..spiritually 😭😭😭😭😭 powerful . Enkosi Thandiswa for giving texture to my innermost feelings on Children of the soil and Kulungile
I see Xoli Thabethe on Keys and bv, Lulu on drums, Sonnyboy Mthimunye on guitars. Proud of South African cats
The Zimbabwean bass player is too smooth too give him his creds
I think the dude on bass guitar is Zimbabwean, according to his name
Yall shouldn’t forget Shoxx on bass!!!!!!!!!❤
Oh yes , Shoxx
This band was on fire
She performed Ingoma, I'm crying 😭😭🥹
Im a 25 year old man and i am here crying by myself. I'm in a spiritual plane i never knew existed
UMlenzi is my jam 😭😭
@@siyabongamasango4590 it's too beautiful, man, we really need something like this. I can't wait for her new album.
@@thabaninjokwe3439 That's a very nice song, man🙌🏿.
Really enjoyed this live rendition of it, despite the song not being a personal favourite. Did anyone notice how the guitarist gave it a bit of a Reggae riff?
Xhosa music is so soulful, God has blessed Afrika. Shine Mazwai!!!
These days anyone can sing, but not everyone gives us goosebumps like you Thandi...🥰😍
0:00 Nizalwa Ngobani?
3:41 Ingoma
7:00 Children of the Soil
10:49 Abenguni
16:05 Lahl’umlenze
Never heard Children of the Soil before. is it a new song?
Yet to be released.
@@relaxwithme1598 I thought she was freestyling because I also don't know it
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Zabalaza was and still is one of the greatest albums from SA
When we count the best musically gifted artists from SA ...we count Thandiswa twice
I totally agree 🎉❤
Simphiwe Dana
well, absolutely. 🤔
And mention her first
metro FM must honor her with a lifetime achievement award.
Never know how big our people are, until we see them on platforms watched by the rest of the world.
My problem is the 19 minutes session. 😢. This is the best thing I've ever seen for 2024
this came and went so quickly angeke bandla @tinydesk owes us at least 3parts
truly
The pain that lands in my heart when this vid ends😤 this woman got an insane catalogue 🔥🤞🏾
A very big beautiful problem
@@jaydasg53 We'll await the new project
Fellows SAns, lets get this historic moment to 1M views before the week ends❤🎉 I'm so proud of King Tha🇿🇦🇿🇦
Higher
It's almost at 10 million it's only been 2 days
Wow we grew up listening to her but wow she's really shining here. And I'm loving these comments 🎉
Turn on captions/subtitles it's poetry indeed
I AM SCREAMING 😭😭😭😭 I love her so much. I thank my parents for raising me with her music. Love from a Namibian 🇳🇦 watching in Germany 🇩🇪🤎🤎🤎
Hope you are proud to be black and African to embrace your roots , ❤❤❤❤ Africa is blessed , with all things , Europeans admire our endurance , Africa , God loves you❤❤
Your parents have impeccable taste in music.
When she sings she's seem like she's not even trying.
THIS IS PURE TALENT❤😭
Facts 🫶🏽❤️🙌🏾Pure Talent
True❤
Hao ngathola wena la Buhle
This the only reason why I'm proud to be South African
I'm a proud African! Beautiful voice! Love from Zimbabwe ❤️
I'm Nigerian, just hearing this amazing South African group for the first time and I really can't get enough of the great songs with so much African original flavours. Incredible Thandiswa!!! Incredible indeed!!! She reminds me of Mama Africa - Miriam Makeba, Yvonne Chaka Chaka etc. Thank you SA for giving us these great women. Africa is so blessed. Much love from Nigeria 🇳🇬. One Africa, one love❤👍💯
She is a solo artist now. Watch her younger days with her group 'Bongo Baffin'.One love.
@@Thato_ Thanks Thato, indeed since after seeing this video, I've been exploring her many other performances. She's just amazing!
@hyginusobiasogu5230 Welcome. She is! Oh that's great enjoy!
You should attend one of South African Jazz festivals you will be amazed by Talent South Africa and Africa has
Solo
Thandiswa gained a new fan from Germany! Thanks NPR.
Danko NPR ❤️🪘
Who else cried? Whew! 🥹 Sis’ Thandiswa, we are SO SO proud of you. This was spiritual as always ❤️🇿🇦
Crying right now like literally
😂😂I’m crying inside.
Yeah! That performance definitely evoked a crazy amount of emotions 😢😅
@@thebluebeyond2329aowa bathong 😂😂
I cried and cried 😢😢😢😢
South Africans let’s sign in here👇
So refreshing to hear her again.
Our Xhosa women.❤❤
Black people across the diaspora make luxurious music !
That's the truth
Yeah but this woman is from the mother land, she's a South african
Except this specific artist is NOT from the diaspora, King Tha is a Xhosa woman from South Africa
@simphiwinkosindaba1036 yes I know exactly what the diaspora is, mme Thandiswa is a South African woman o dulang mo South Africa unless she has moved abroad in recent years and I am unaware.
The fact that I know each and every song she performed here it means I’m a fan.. I love this lady.
The 3rd is a new song, surely from the upcoming album.
Lahlum’mlenze completely sent me 🕺🏿🕺🏿🎉🎉
I swear this lady every time she sings its a spiritual celebration, uvusa abaphansi.goose bumps moments and it was too short.
Being South African (🇿🇦) is consistently becoming a big flex! The most nostalgic NPR Tiny Desk concert - hands down.
🇿🇦 to the 🌎 - I will be camping here all year!
Me too
Be humble maan guys plz.
@subzeromidnight5388, what are you on about?
@@lebogangabunhlapo south africans like to brag all over social media. Its not a nice look
The way my African people flooded the comment section makes my heart warm-up 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦
Always and forever King.
Yo,the band!!!! I dont even have words to describe this amazing artistry 🔥🔥 and of course the legend, the icon, the amazing Thandiswa👏👏👏🐐
im fangirling so hard!!! oh Mamiya!!! ungazilibali ba uzalwa ngubani bc you are out of this world. tiny desk will never see such talent again. KULUNGILE (1st single) OUT 12 APRIL, SANKOFA COMING SOON
Beautiful daughter message Laika 🤍
your mama is dope love
Yeah, as i asked her 😊 she started with that... Most Def, it's an hour for them...🙌
Thanks Dear, Your mom is amazing
And what a great name for the album too 🇿🇦 🇬🇭 we really are one!
Let's get this video to 1million by the end of the week. South Africa stand up
Watseba i wasn’t expecting this , she’s a superstar.
Just here to make your day and say we are almost at 10M😊
Just here to make your day and say that we are fast approaching the 10M mark
Bruuuuh!🔥😤🇿🇦🙌🏾
The Legendary Thandiswa Mazwai🙌🏾
Thandiswa Mazwai's skin is so beautiful.
Jamaica in the house loving good vibes 🎶🎶🎶💯💯
Love to Jamaica! I hope you hear the raggae influence in the second song "Ingoma!" Thank you Jamaica!