{"id":873,"date":"2006-02-15T22:12:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-16T06:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscorrigan.com\/blogs\/?p=873"},"modified":"2006-02-28T09:16:14","modified_gmt":"2006-02-28T17:16:14","slug":"rip-jockey-shabalala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/rip-jockey-shabalala\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Jockey Shabalala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.worldmusiccentral.org\/images\/articles\/20060214063304500_1.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.worldmusiccentral.org\/images\/articles\/20060214063304500_1.jpg?w=620\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldmusiccentral.org\/article.php\/20060214063304500\">Jockey Shabalala of Ladysmith Black Mambazo<\/a> has died at age 62.  Even people who are not fans of world music know the legacy of this man&#8217;s work.  Jockey was the founder of LBM, although he took a backseat to his brother who sings the lead for the group.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report on CBC today, he chose the name because &#8220;Ladysmith&#8221; was his home township, &#8220;Black&#8221; was for the colour of the strongest oxen, and &#8220;Mambazo&#8221; means to cut down with an axe, a reference to the fact that the group started out singing in contests and that it would lead its competition in shreds.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a track to commermerate Jockey&#8217;s passing.<\/p>\n<div><strong>mp3:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/anon.salon.speedera.net\/anon.salon\/mp3s\/2006\/jan\/ladysmith-nomathemba.mp3\">Ladysmith Black Mambazo &#8211; Nomathemba<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jockey Shabalala of Ladysmith Black Mambazo has died at age 62. Even people who are not fans of world music know the legacy of this man&#8217;s work. Jockey was the founder of LBM, although he took a backseat to his brother who sings the lead for the group. According to a report on CBC today, he chose the name because &#8220;Ladysmith&#8221; was his home township, &#8220;Black&#8221; was for the colour of the strongest oxen, and &#8220;Mambazo&#8221; means to cut down with an axe, a reference to the fact that the group started out singing in contests and that it would &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-e5","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}