DECATUR — Johns Hill Music Makers learn fast. In one class period Friday, choral director Heather Pistorius taught the sixth-grade choir a traditional South African folk song, “Lilizela,” complete ...

Miriam Makeba, 76, a revered South African folk singer and activist who was among the first female African singers to achieve international success, and who became a powerful voice in the ...

WASHINGTON — Hugh Masekela, a South African trumpeter and singer who formed a musical bridge between two continents, mixing American jazz with African folk in records that made him an early avatar of ...

BETHEL - Young singers from another continent in another hemisphere, where it will soon be summer instead of winter, had no trouble connecting with the teenagers Wednesday at Bethel High School The ...