Joseph Shabalala

Joseph Shabalala founded Ladysmith Black Mambazo in the early 1960s to sing isicathamiya, the a cappella style developed by Zulu migrant workers in South Africa's mining hostels. Paul Simon's Graceland made the group world-famous in 1986, but Shabalala also founded an academy to teach the style to young South Africans, and his sons now lead the group. He died in 2020.