TSHOTSHOLOZA
Created on 03/04/2008Latest update on 06/03/2018
Artist: Nathan Mdledle & Company
Author: trad arr. by Todd Matshikiza
Label: Decca
Year: 1961
In the London cast recording of King Kong. The song wasn't part of the South African original production. Tshostholosa also made it as theme song of South African gold & diamond miners, as unofficial Zulu anthem (as Shosholoza) and as the local rugby supporters' hymn. Means: Push Forward, Hold On, Persevere. Mandela on Robben Island kept his spirit high with this song. There's been a version as Shosholoza Mandela, circulating after he was locked up in '63.
Covers:
- 1963:
Pete Seeger [as Tshotsholoza (Road Song) at Carnegy Hall]
- 1964:
Ian Campbell Folk Group [as Cho Cho Loza]
- 1964:
Johannesburg African Music Society [in South African film Dingala; choir with over 150 voices, recruited among church choirs of the western townships of Johannesburg]
- 1974:
Ipi-Tombi original cast [in South African Egnos/Lakier musical as Shosholoza]
- 1980:
Peter Gabriel [idem; B-side of Biko]
- 1986:
- 1986:
Eric Bogle [incorporated Tshotsholoza at the end of Singing The Spirit Home]
- 1989:
Simple Minds [idem]
- 1994:
Manu Dibango [feat. Peter Gabriel, Ladysmith Black Mambazo and Geoffrey Oryema]
- 1999:
Helmut Lotti [as Shosholoza in his Out Of Africa project]
- 2009:
Overtone with Yollandi Nortjie [as Shosholoza in film Invictus]
- 2010:
Ternielle Nelson, Jason Hartman, UJU, Louise Carver, Aya & Deep Level [during the FIFA World Cup in South Africa]
