Talk:Ladysmith Black Mambazo

message: "His brother, Ben Shabalala, who was part of South Africa's most famous Acappella ensemble for many years, was shot to death in Durban, South Africa on June 16, 2004. Lady Black Mambazo fuses Zulu and gospel music. The group won a Grammy award for best album in 1986." -- IMDb: Joseph Shabalala
:-- Crnk Mnky 15:04, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Trivia" from IMDb Entry 

message: Someone needs to research this and add it to the article, it was part of a saturday night live sketch about failed cartoon shows. It sounded like they recoded some of the audio for the sketch themselves, but i have been unable to track down any information concerning the sketch. in any event, it should definately be mentioned in the article.--69.218.198.216 04:57, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's not that noteworthy to put in the article. In a discussion I had with their manager recently it seems the group itself did not record any of the vocals for the cartoon. LBM 22:28, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Ladysmith Black Mambazo in Outer Space

message: I came very close to nominating this page as a GA, but there are few things that need to be corrected first:
*The reference section needs to be bulleted
*In context, this sentence:
 sounds like the "they" is referring to Shabalala's harmonies, instead of the band (which is what I believe "they" refers to).  That needs to be made more clear.  Also, the previous sentence jumps to the sentence above without any chronological connection.  That's like saying "John Mayer wanted to be a musician since he was thirteen.  He wore a black tux when he got his first Grammy"  It jumps so far into the future it is a little jarring.
*Since most of the English speaking world (or at least english Wikipedia's readership) is unfamiliar with the term isicathamiya, there should probably be a brief explanation of what that is - one sentence is good enough.
*There is some overlinking in the article: isicathamiya  is linked more than once, and so are various years, etc...
*Also, you might consider turning some of those inline urls into proper inline citations.  See WP:IC.
Other than these points, I think you have a strong article.  It is almost there.--Esprit15d 17:28, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I have made the appropriate changes to the article. --LBM | TALK TO ME 00:11, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've GA'd it. Congrats.  --  Zanimum 20:05, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: GA nomination

message: "On December 10, 1991, Shabalala's brother and one of the bass members in the group, Headman Shabalala, was shot and killed by Sean Nicholas, a white off-duty security guard.His death was considered a racial killing by Paul Simon, who led the court proceedings against Nicholas."
I don't understand what the above quote means. In what sense did Simon "lead the court proceedings against Nicholas"? Was he there when Shabalala was killed? Did he finance the defense?  Clarification would be appreciated. 68.7.201.42 07:32, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Paul Simon did what?

message: I have a few concerns about the "full statement" reproduced here. For one thing, it's quite unnecessary and unencyclopedic. The setup to the statement seems to indicate that he's going to tell us that he's going to retire (or that he'll never retire or something), but in fact he's saying that if he retires, his son will take over running the band. Just on these grounds alone, I think the statement should be removed, but if that's not a compelling enough reason, I think the copyright on reproducing an entire statement, word-for-word is dubious. It can hardly be considered fair use, because it could easily be summarized and/or paraphrased without any loss in the meaning, and it's a reproduction of the work in full. 0x0077BE [talk/contrib] 06:26, 8 April 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree. Walter Görlitz (talk) 06:55, 8 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Full statement - should be removed 

message: The following two consecutive sentences are missing words needed to make them proper English:
In January 2013 the group released a new album, Live: Singing for Peace Around the World, which was dedicated to South African icon and former Nelson Mandela.[citation needed] On December 6, 2013 it was announced that it nominated, by the Grammy Awards, for Best World Music CD.Tomandzeke (talk) 11:58, 12 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Use Proper English

message: in the introduction it is stated that LBM were formed by Joseph Shabalala in 1960. However in the history paragraph it states that Joseph Shabalala formed Ladysmith Black Mambazo because of a series of dreams he had in 1964.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bookworm157 (talk • contribs) 04:00, 12 January 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I have the same confusion, did the series of dreams occur after LBM was already formed?  Or are the dates wrong?  Kenahoo (talk) 04:52, 12 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dates - confusing and contradicting.  

message: I just uploaded a batch of photos from a recent concert, :Commons:Category:Ladysmith Black Mambazo performance 2017-01-31. I think some of them are more dynamic than the three full-group shots that are currently the only illustrations in the article. I leave it to someone else to decide what (if anything) to add and where, but here are some that I think might be of interest:
File:Ladysmith Black Mambazo - 2017-01-31 - 32A (32634706246).jpg
File:Ladysmith Black Mambazo - 2017-01-31 - 04 (32277855640).jpg
File:Ladysmith Black Mambazo - 2017-01-31 - 11 (31856336203).jpg
File:Ladysmith Black Mambazo - 2017-01-31 - 17A (32295684940).jpg
File:Ladysmith Black Mambazo - 2017-01-31 - 51 (32635048006).jpg
- Jmabel | Talk 06:27, 3 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  More photos 

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