Johnny Clegg

Quick Facts

Full Name	Johnny Clegg
Occupation	Guitarist
Date Of Birth	Jun 7, 1953(1953-06-07)
Age	71
Date Of Death	2019-07-16
Birthplace	Bacup
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Gemini

Johnny Clegg Biography

Johnny Clegg is one of the most popular and richest Guitarist who was born on June 7, 1953 in Bacup, England, United Kingdom. South African musician who performed in the groups Juluka and Savuka in addition to performing as an individual artist.

His 1987 hit song “Asimbonanga” (“We Haven’t Seen He”) demanded an exile of His 1987 song “Asimbonanga” (“We Haven’t Seen Him”) called for the release of Nelson Mandela from prison. from jail.

Clegg was born on 7 June 1953 in Bacup, Lancashire, to an English father of Scottish descent, Dennis Clegg, and a Rhodesian mother, Muriel (Braudo). Clegg’s mother’s family were Jewish immigrants from Lithuania, and Clegg had a secular Jewish upbringing, learning about the Ten Commandments but refusing to have a bar mitzvah or even associate with other Jewish children at school. His parents divorced when he was still an infant, and he moved with his mother to Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and then, at the age of six, to South Africa, also spending part of a year in Israel during his childhood.

Jonathan Paul Clegg, OBE, OIS (7 June 1953 – 16 July 2019) was a South African musician and anthropologist, some of whose work was in musicology focused on the music of indigenous South African peoples. His band Juluka began as a duo with Sipho Mchunu, and was the first group in the South African apartheid-era with a white man and a black man. The pair performed and recorded, later with an expanded lineup.

He had two kids along with his wife Jenny He got wed in 1988.

Johnny Clegg Net Worth

Johnny Clegg is one of the richest Guitarist from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Johnny Clegg 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

As a kid, he was as a child in United Kingdom, Israel, Zimbabwe, Zambia, and South Africa.

Juluka the ethnically diverse South African band in which the band was formed, released 2 Platinum and five albums that were Gold-selling.

He preceded each song with snippets of Zulu culture, information, commentary, humor and personal anecdotes relevant and unique to that song, occasionally also incorporating aspects of his Jewish roots in songs such as “Jericho”, “Jarusalema” and “Warsaw 1943”.

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Who is Johnny Clegg Dating?

According to our records, Johnny Clegg married to Jenny Clegg. As of December 1, 2023, Johnny Clegg’s is not dating anyone.

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Despite being ignored and often harassed by the South African government at home, Juluka were able to tour internationally, playing in Europe, Canada, and the United States, and had two platinum and five gold albums, becoming an international success. The group was disbanded in 1985, when Mchunu retired from music and went back to his family farm to return to his people’s traditional life of raising cattle. It was briefly reconstituted when Mchunu and Clegg reunited in the mid-1990s, releasing one final album in 1997 before breaking up for good.

Facts & Trivia

Johnny Ranked on the list of most popular Guitarist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Johnny Clegg celebrates birthday on June 7 of every year.

In 1986 Clegg founded the band Savuka, and also recorded as a solo act, occasionally reuniting with his earlier band partners. Sometimes called Le Zoulou Blanc (French: [lə zulu blɑ̃] , for “The White Zulu”), he was an important figure in South African popular music and one of the most prominent white figures in the resistance to apartheid, becoming for a period the subject of investigation by the Security Branch of the South African Police (SAP-SB). His songs mixed English with Zulu lyrics, and also combined idioms of traditional African music with those of modern Western styles.

What did Johnny Clegg died of?

Pancreatic cancer

What languages did Johnny Clegg speak?

Under the tutelage of Charlie Mzila, a flat cleaner by day and musician by night, Clegg mastered both the Zulu language and the maskandi guitar and isishameni dance styles of the migrants while still in his mid-teens. Through these he also gained a profound understanding of Zulu culture, as his songs attest.

What did Johnny Clegg do for apartheid?

One of the most celebrated voices in modern South African music has died. Singer, dancer and activist Johnny Clegg, who co-founded two groundbreaking, racially mixed bands during the apartheid era, died Tuesday in Johannesburg at age 66. He had battled pancreatic cancer since 2015.

Why was Johnny Clegg called the White Zulu?

The so-called “White Zulu” — so named for his use of indigenous South African music and dance – passed away at age 66, after a battle with pancreatic cancer.

What is the meaning of asimbonanga?

The Zulu word “Asimbonanga” means “ We have not seen him “,. A press release from Woolworths says the song was written to reflect on the fact that Madiba was not visible to South Africans due to the prohibition of the publication of images or depictions of him during his imprisonment.