Mahotella queens biography of mahatma gandhi

Recipients of the Womex 2000 Award as "World Music Artist of the Year" at the recent Womex Conference in Berlin, THE MAHOTELLA QUEENS are South Africa's foremost Afro-pop singing group.

The Queens - Hilda Tloubatla, Mildred Mangxola, and Nobesuthu Mbadu - first sealed their place in the legend of urban South African music in the early 1960s when, together with Mahlathini (the "Lion of Soweto") and the musicians of the Makgona Tsothle Band ("Band Who Knows Everything"), they invented Mbaquanga, a strong and explosive potion of various types of traditional music (Zulu, Sotho, Shangaan, Xhosa) mixed with Marabi (South African jazz) and American R&B, soul, and gospel.

They soon hit the international stage as heroes of the cultural resistance to Apartheid and as idols to South Africa's black community during the dark years. Far more than just Mahlathini's female choir, the Mahotella Queens were one of his group's key elements, the extra bit of soul that gave thi