
Artist
Johnny Clegg
Johnny Clegg is a pop artist from Rochdale, England. 18 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Pop · Rochdale, England · Best pop albums
- 18
- Releases
- 1985–2017
- Active years

Artist
Johnny Clegg is a pop artist from Rochdale, England. 18 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Pop · Rochdale, England · Best pop albums

Most popular
Third World Child
1985

King of Time
2017

Human
2010
A South African Story
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Scatterlings of Africa (Protoculture Remix)
2016
Spirit Is the Journey: Celebrating 30 Years of Johnny Clegg
2010
Live at the Nelson Mandela Theatre
2007
At the Baxter Theatre, Cape Town: Best, Live & Unplugged
2006
One Life
2006
Best of Live at the Nelson Mandela Theatre
2004
New World Survivor
2002

The Best Of Johnny Clegg & Savuka: In My African Dream
2002
Anthology
1999

Heat Dust & Dreams
1993
South‐Africa: Cologne Zulu Festival
1992

Cruel Crazy Beautiful World
1990

Shadow Man
1988
Jonathan Paul Clegg, OBE OIS (7 June 1953 – 16 July 2019) was a South African musician, singer-songwriter, dancer, anthropologist and anti-apartheid activist. He first performed as part of a duo - Johnny & Sipho - with Sipho Mchunu which released its first single, Woza Friday in 1976. The two then went on to form the band Juluka which released its debut album in 1979. 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: , for "The White Zulu"), he was an important figure in South African popular music and a prominent white figure in the resistance to apartheid, becoming for a period the subject of investigation by the security branch of the South African Police. His songs mixed English with Zulu lyrics, and also combined idioms of traditional African music with those of modern Western styles. Early life and career: Clegg was born in Bacup, Lancashire, to an English father and a Rhodesian mother. Clegg's mother's family were Jewish immigrants from Lithuania and Poland, and Clegg had a "secular Jewish" upbringing. Already in his youth, Clegg, a white, English-speaki…