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kwela

NOUN
  1. a kind of danceable music popular among black South Africans; includes a whistle among its instruments

How To Use kwela In A Sentence

  • By the 1960s, whites too had become avid fans of township jazz, which had sprouted into kwela's instrumental music and mbaqanga, a vocal jazz style.
  • Graceland, though echoes of its lilting South African kwela music are heard on Dallas Observer | Complete Issue
  • I found jive and kwela from the 1950s and 1960s, using the penny whistle. Times, Sunday Times
  • The latter track is reminiscent of the popular kwela instrumentals of the previous decade, except that the whistle has been usurped by the electrified sounds of keyboards, angular lead guitar, and driving bass. PopMatters
  • African Rhythms traces various musical pathways from marabi through to kwela and mbaqanga and explores the lives of those who made the music.
  • (Jeremiah 20: 9) ayos to sir a!!! ginawang happy song ang sandman ang kwela e mismong metallica nag-perform ng piece ... di ko na makontrol ang aking GAS. kung kelan nawalan ng pagkukuhaan ng pera ngayon matindi ang gas. TALK @ PhilMusic.com - The Online Home of the Pinoy Musician
  • Freshlyground is indigenous African folk mixed with jazz, soul, kwela and dance hall music.
  • It is a great loss to music lovers, especially jazz followers, some of whom were almost addicted to his marabi and kwela music, and to cultural activists generally. ANC MOURNS JAZZ GIANT NTEMI PILISO
  • The 47-year-old flugelhorn player - who lives on the same street as former Miss Universe Mpule Kwelagobe in Botswana - used to play the flugelhorn in school before turning pro in 1986.
  • With her vocal range embracing mbaqanga, kwela, township jive and American jazz through ballads to gospel, she will add Afro-international zest to the tribute concerts.
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