01.21.2012
Busking for Jesus
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Jesus Playing Guitar by Avie On Friday the family walked to Kalk Bay from Surfer’s Corner while I drove there and set up to do some busking. I ended up on the pier where the fish are being cut up. In fact, I was standing next to the very corner where people bring buckets of [...]
01.08.2012
Busking Blogs
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Busking requires a lot of time on the Internet. Just looking up the words to all those songs that you’ve only ever really known the chorus. My definition of a good busker song is one that doesn’t have too many words. That writes Jack Johnson out of the equation right away although you would think [...]
12.23.2011
English translation of Inkanyezi Nezazi (The star and the wise man) by Ladysmith Black Mambazo
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Although numerous sites on the Internet share the Zulu lyrics of this song, I haven’t found a proper translation. It’s quite a beautiful Christmas song and profoundly Christian. That’s quite funny if you realize that this song became famous in the UK in 1997 for having been used in an advertisement for canned beans. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZN6wEprr7Y [...]