http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.49610&rws=%2Fvusi-mahlasela%2Ftop-tracks.rssBorn into a poor South African family in 1965, Vusi Mahlasela's story reads like a grandfather's artfully exaggerated hard-luck tale -- only his is true. He really did build his first guitar out of fishing line and tin when he was just a kid. Reared in Mamalodi Township, Mahlasela experienced the final ugly days of apartheid. He joined the apartheid protest movement in his teens, while simultaneously developing his skills as a singer and songwriter. As a regular presence at protests and funerals, Mahlasela crossed the apartheid government repeatedly; police routinely seized his writings and would jail him intermittently. After apartheid ended, Mahlasela began recording and performing regularly, but it wasn't until the release of the 2003 documentary film <I>Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony</i> that a wider world audience was introduced to him. That year he signed to fellow South African Dave Matthews' ATO Records, which released <I>The Voice</i>, a compilation of his best songs to date. In 2007 Mahlasela returned to the international stage with <i>Guiding Star</i>. Mahlasela's delicate guitar playing and uncannily soulful voice guide songs that tack between indigenous South African styles and a global singer-songwriter tradition. - Sarah BardeenAfricaen720Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:00:32 -0800 http://static.realone.com/rotw/images/logo_rhapsody_113x22.gif http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.49610&rws=%2Fvusi-mahlasela%2Ftop-tracks.rss Born into a poor South African family in 1965, Vusi Mahlasela's story reads like a grandfather's artfully exaggerated hard-luck tale -- only his is true. He really did build his first guitar out of fishing line and tin when he was just a kid. Reared in Mamalodi Township, Mahlasela experienced the final ugly days of apartheid. He joined the apartheid protest movement in his teens, while simultaneously developing his skills as a singer and songwriter. As a regular presence at protests and funerals, Mahlasela crossed the apartheid government repeatedly; police routinely seized his writings and would jail him intermittently. After apartheid ended, Mahlasela began recording and performing regularly, but it wasn't until the release of the 2003 documentary film <I>Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony</i> that a wider world audience was introduced to him. That year he signed to fellow South African Dave Matthews' ATO Records, which released <I>The Voice</i>, a compilation of his best songs to date. In 2007 Mahlasela returned to the international stage with <i>Guiding Star</i>. Mahlasela's delicate guitar playing and uncannily soulful voice guide songs that tack between indigenous South African styles and a global singer-songwriter tradition. - Sarah Bardeen http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.13716976&variant=play&rws=%2Fvusi-mahlasela%2Ftop-tracks.rss Afro-Pop Tue, 6 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0800 Top Tracks by Vusi Mahlasela on Rhapsody Online 13716976 tra.13716976 Vusi Mahlasela art.49610 0.99 Guiding Star alb.13716111 http://image.listen.com/img/170x170/3/8/9/2/1432983_170x170.jpg 2007-03-06 00:00:00.0 2007-03-06 00:00:00.0 true Sower Of Words (Featuring Dave Matthews) tra.13716976 263000 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.13716976&variant=play&rws=%2Fvusi-mahlasela%2Ftop-tracks.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.13716976&variant=data&rws=%2Fvusi-mahlasela%2Ftop-tracks.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.13716970&variant=play&rws=%2Fvusi-mahlasela%2Ftop-tracks.rss Africa Tue, 6 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0800 Top Tracks by Vusi Mahlasela on Rhapsody 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