Music is my Life

  • Music is my Life
Genre : Musical
Type : Documentary
Original title :
Column : Cinema/tv
Year of production : 2022
Format : Feature
Running time : 90 (in minutes)

Music is My Life tells the story of South African musician, the late Joseph Shabalala, including his rise to international fame with his band Ladysmith Black Mambazo in the wake of their contributions to Paul Simon's massively successful Graceland album. Bathed in Ladysmith's powerful and deeply beautiful music, the documentary covers the full breadth of the singer's life, from his early years in rural South Africa to the height of Shabalala's global success to his passing in 2020 at the age of 79.



Directed & Written by:
Mpumi Supa Mbele
Produced by
Carolyn Eileen Carew

Durban International Film Festival in 2022.

Partners

  • Arterial network
  • Media, Sports and Entertainment Group (MSE)
  • Gens de la Caraïbe
  • Groupe 30 Afrique
  • Alliance Française VANUATU
  • PACIFIC ARTS ALLIANCE
  • FURTHER ARTS
  • Zimbabwe : Culture Fund Of Zimbabwe Trust
  • RDC : Groupe TACCEMS
  • Rwanda : Positive Production
  • Togo : Kadam Kadam
  • Niger : ONG Culture Art Humanité
  • Collectif 2004 Images
  • Africultures Burkina-Faso
  • Bénincultures / Editions Plurielles
  • Africiné
  • Afrilivres

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