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Moses Mchunu (born 1953) [1] is a Maskandi musician from KwaZulu-Natal, Nkandla , Mthandanhle Area South Africa. He is well known for his hit "Qhwayilahle", which was featured on the Indestructible Beat of Soweto album in 1985. [2]

Moses Mchunu's style of music is said by musicologists such as Charles Hamm to fall into the neo-traditional form of Mbaqanga - infectious and complex four-bar sequences of acoustic guitar, vocals and harmonies, strong baselines, drums and usually an accordion and/or a fiddle.

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References

  1. Colin Larkin, ed. (1992). The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music (First ed.). Guinness Publishing. p. 1571. ISBN   0-85112-939-0.
  2. Nathan Brackett, Christian David Hoard (2004). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide . Simon and Schuster. pp.  916. ISBN   9780743201698. Moses Mchunu.