Letta Mbulu Biography, Songs

Letta Mbulu Biography

Letta Mbulu was born on 23rd August 1942 in Soweto, south Africa.She is a jazz musician who has been in the music industry since 1960.

Letta Mbulu Career

Her career in music began back in the 1960s. She toured with the Musical King Kong when she was still a teenager. She left for the United States in 1965 due to Apartheid.

In New York she connected with other South African exiles (musicians) icluding Miriam Makeba, Hugh Masekela and Jonas Gwangwa,[1] and went on to work with Cannonball Adderley, David Axelrod and Harry Belafonte.

In 1986 she helped to form South African Artists United (SAAU)basing the group on the Union of South African Artists that grew from the African Jazz and Variety for whom she made her early debut.

Her voice can also be heard on screen, A Warm December and The Color Purple, performed the opening title track.

Letta Mbulu Songs

  • Not Yet Uhuru
  • Nomalizo
  • Maru A Pula
  • Mahlalela
  • What’s Wrong With Groovin’
  • Pula Yetla
  • Ndi-phendule
  • Themba Lami
  • Culani Nami
  • Afro Texas
  • Buza
  • Kukuchi
  • Aredze
  • Macongo
  • Isidwaba Singu Fakazi
  • Everybody Sing Along
  • You Are So True
  • Welele
  • Help Me Somebody
  • Khuluma
  • Hamba Nam We
  • Mamani
  • What More Could Be Right
  • Only When You’re Mine Again
  • Qonqoza
  • Magwalandini
  • We Can Do It
  • Madulo
  • Olu Ati Ayo
  • Music Is A Rainbow
  • Mhina Roupa/Ka Meropa
  • Sexwaxwa

Husband

Her husband is Caiphus Semenya who is a South African jazz musician.

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