| LC control no. | no 94032634 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Masuka, Dorothy |
| Variant(s) | Auntie Dorothy Aunty Dot Dorothy, Auntie Dot, Aunty Sis Do Masuku, Dorothy |
| Biography/History note | Individual was an Afropop Hall of Fame inductee and an Order of Ikhamanga in Silver awardee. |
| Associated country | Zimbabwe South Africa |
| Associated place | Malawi Tanzania Uganda Kenya |
| Located | New York (N.Y.) London (England) Zambia |
| Birth date | 1935-09-03 |
| Death date | 2019-02-23 |
| Place of birth | Bulawayo (Zimbabwe) |
| Place of death | Johannesburg (South Africa) |
| Field of activity | Popular music |
| Affiliation | Troubadour Records (Firm) Golden Rhythm Crooners (Musical group) |
| Profession or occupation | Singers Composers Lyricists Arrangers (Musicians) Anti-apartheid activists |
| Found in | Mango, 1992: label (Dorothy Masuka) Int. dict. of Black composers, 1999 (Masuko, Dorothy; b. 1935, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe; popularly known as Aunty Dot or Sis Do) African musicians profiles website, viewed Sep. 4, 2013 (Dorothy Masuka; father originally from Zambia, her mother was Zulu; family moved to South Africa when she was 12 and she attended school in Johannesburg; performed in exile in Malawi and Tanzania in 1960s and 1970s) BBC, Music website, Dorothy Masuka: the definitive collection, released 2002, viewed Sep. 4, 2013 ("Auntie Dorothy"; technically Zimbabwean; many of her well-known songs are in Ndebele language, similar to Kwazulu) Dictionary of African Biography, accessed February 21, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Masuka, Dorothy; Dorothy 'Notsokolo' Masuka; composer, arranger, popular singer; born in 1935 in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe; recorded with Troubadour Records, Johannesburg (1952); rose to fame with the Golden Rhythm Crooners; released Hamba Notsokolo (1950s); composed her own songs; reinvigorated career through album Pata Pata (1990); received the greatest acclaim with archival re-release of biggest hits on album Hamba Notsokolo (1995); was inducted into the Afropop Hall of Fame, New York (2002); received Order of Ikhamanga in Silver by the Presidency of South Africa (2006)) New York times WWW site, viewed Feb. 28, 2019 (in obituary published Feb. 27: Dorothy Masuka; b. Dorothy Masuku, Sept. 3, 1935, Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe); her name was misspelled Masuka on some early records, and the mistake stuck; d. Saturday [Feb. 23, 2019], Johannesburg, aged 83; vocalist and songwriter who blazed a trail for female pop stars in South Africa and became a dogged advocate of the struggle against apartheid; in 1961 she recorded Lumumba, addressing the assassination of the Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba; South African authorities tried to seize all copies of the record, and Ms. Masuka went into exile for more than 30 years; for a few years she traveled widely, performing on behalf of independence movements in Zimbabwe, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda, and Kenya; lived briefly in New York and London, supported by A.N.C. sympathizers, before settling down in Zambia with her children; returned to live in Zimbabwe after it gained independence in 1980; moved back to Johannesburg in 1992, when apartheid was crumbling; considered a national hero in both South Africa and Zimbabwe, though she resisted aligning herself with any single country) |
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