When Joseph Bhekizizwe Shabalala died, I stopped in my tracks and just let the sadness pull me down. And then inspiration from his beacon of a life lifted me back up.
Shabalala’s own response to the devastating murder of his wife Nellie in 2002 was the transcendently uplifting album by his ensemble Ladysmith Black Mambazo called Raise Your Spirit Higher. It won a Grammy in 2003.