South African singer Letta Mbulu toured with the musical King Kong as a teenager and left for the United States in the mid-1960s because of apartheid. In America, she worked with Cannonball Adderley and Harry Belafonte, and Quincy Jones made her a voice of the 1977 Roots soundtrack. She returned home in 1991.
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