South African singer and songwriter Johnny Clegg, one of the few white artists t...
JOHANNESBURG - South African singer and songwriter Johnny Clegg, one of the few white artists to openly confront the apartheid government in the late 1970s and 1980s, died on Tuesday aged 66, his agent said.
He went on to perform the song for Mandela onstage in South Africa at the popular Aids awareness concerts that Mandela organised. Clegg was born in England, the child of an Englishman and a jazz singer from Zimbabwe . After they divorced during his early childhood, his mother took him to live in Zimbabwe.
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