Johnny Clegg, South African artist who fought apartheid with music, dies at 66
by Randy Lewis, Los Angeles Times
Jul 17, 2019
4 minutes
South African musician Johnny Clegg, who formed one of the first rock bands with black and white musicians that performed together when apartheid was still the law of the land, has died after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 66.
Clegg died at his home in Johannesburg, his manager, Roddy Quin, confirmed in a statement.
Clegg was part of a community that brought Afro pop music to a global audience in the 1980s, along with Nigeria's King Sunny Ade, Tabu Ley Rochereau from Congo as well as Western musicians such as Paul Simon and Peter Gabriel.
Through recordings with his first band, Juluka (the Zulu
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