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Speaker 1: Sad news, sad news over this long weekend. Yesterday, Albert Mazibuko,

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Speaker 1: a founding member of the Grammy Award winners Ladysmith Black Mambaso,

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Speaker 1: passed away at the age of seventy seven. He joined

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Speaker 1: the group in nineteen sixty nine, devoting moreman five decades

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Speaker 1: was life to a sound that resonated across the globe.

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Speaker 1: Five Grammy Awards, nineteen Grammy nominations, so many iconic songs

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Speaker 1: and collaborations. Mazibugo, of course, preserved and championed the vision

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Speaker 1: of doctor Joseph Shabbalala bringing the timeless beauty of Istatama

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Speaker 1: to audiences around the world. Were invited spon Seny Shabbalala,

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Speaker 1: a member of Ladysmith Black Mambazo who grew up watching

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Speaker 1: his father and the other members straddle the global stage

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Speaker 1: and put South African music on the map. Spong saying

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Speaker 1: a very good morning to you and thank you for

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Speaker 1: talking to us. This is certainly very sad news for

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Speaker 1: the Ladysmith Black mambas family.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, good money do you and the listeners, Yes,

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Speaker 2: it's very sad news. Indeed, hearing of the pursuit of

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Speaker 2: our father vocal the news yesterday just to going we

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Speaker 2: got on stage because we're doing a show in medicine

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Speaker 2: with consume.

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Speaker 1: He was known as the Librarian. He had so much information,

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Speaker 1: so many stories. He was there to witness it all

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Speaker 1: from the beginning.

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Speaker 2: Hey, yes, from the teginning, my father got a dream

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Speaker 2: because he had been trying to form the group and

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Speaker 2: to teach other members how this sound that he got

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Speaker 2: from his dreams to putitude music. And finally when he

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Speaker 2: got a dream from his grandmother to go and talk

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Speaker 2: to Babo Albert Mazburg and his brother, the late they

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Speaker 2: trusting as Bogo to the dream told him, those are

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Speaker 2: the people that are going to help you to achieve

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Speaker 2: whatever you want with this dream. And it indeed happened

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Speaker 2: that he went to them and told them about the dream.

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Speaker 2: And from then on nineteen sixty nine, then they started

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Speaker 2: and learning the new composition, refusing the sounds that my

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Speaker 2: father got from the Prince.

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Speaker 3: That it was Babo albeit that was able to grasp

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Speaker 3: the the teachings of my father.

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Speaker 1: And he carried on that legacy, that vision after your father,

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Speaker 1: of course, was no longer with us. What will you

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Speaker 1: remember about ah?

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Speaker 2: Yes, as you say he carried on with us after

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Speaker 2: the passing of my father. He never said that because

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Speaker 2: my brother is not here anymore, I'm not gonna be

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Speaker 2: continue with the with the with the young ones. He

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Speaker 2: was a very kind, most kindly, pepful person, I know, selfless. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: he always have as you say.

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Speaker 3: He was.

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Speaker 2: We called him the library of Lady smith Berg members.

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Speaker 2: And he is surprised us because when my father was alive,

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Speaker 2: Bubble Albert was always so quiet listening to my father

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Speaker 2: agreeing and just putting things here and there. But when

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Speaker 2: my father has Babbo Albert was the one who was

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Speaker 2: able to lead us and and and we discovered that

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Speaker 2: he hid so much knowledge and that on its own

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Speaker 2: taught us that.

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Speaker 3: That the way Babbo Albert was able.

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Speaker 2: To support the dream of Babala to give Lady smith

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Speaker 2: Berg members and put it to where it is today. Uh,

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Speaker 2: the way to support someone if he has a dream,

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Speaker 2: We learned it from Babbo Albert because my that would

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Speaker 2: come with songs will come with different things. But Alas

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Speaker 2: never said anything negative. Always listen and do exactly what

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Speaker 2: my father was saying. And that is how we all

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Speaker 2: learned even how to present new music to the group.

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Speaker 3: You must listen to each other.

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Speaker 1: A powerful legacy he will leave behind. Thank you so

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Speaker 1: much for talking to us. Spongsen Shabalala, a member of

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Speaker 1: Ladysmith Black Mambaso