Albert Mazibuko

Albert Mazibuko (1 June 1948 – 5 April 2026) was a South African singer who was a member of Ladysmith Black Mambazo, a choral group founded in 1960 by his cousin Joseph Shabalala. Quotes I was working as an auto mechanic and Joseph Shabalala was also working there. In fact, he was the one who brought me to the company because after I left Ladysmith, and went to Durban, I was working in a factory, an asbestos factory and Joseph said “No, the money's too small there,” so he introduced me there, so I was working with him. It was easier for us because that's where he was writing most of the songs at the time, but we didn't have any recorders so any songs had to come from him. So he'd run up to me and say “This is the song we need to work on when we get home.” I was working there until about 1973 when we were fired because we weren't always working while we were there. Yeah, 1970, we recorded on the radio and then after that a producer from Johannesburg heard us on the radio, so he came to look for us but first of all he went to Ladysmith but we were living in Durban. Ladysmith is our hometown, so we were from there and we'd go there on holidays. He finally found us and we went there in 1970, signed a contract in 1972 and in 1973 it was released. At the halls when we were performing and entertaining each other, we were singing songs that everyone knew because we didn't want them to find out about our new way of singing, Joseph said. But at competition we sang our own songs, and those were the ones that had us winning all the competitions until we were fired from competing. External links Category:1948 births