It is a South African wedding song that was originally performed by: Miriam Makeba *live in1963. copy & paste to see video> th-cam.com/video/rjo8h5qLpU0/w-d-xo.html
Igqira lendlela nguqo ngqothwane The road’s witchdoctor is the knocking beetle Igqirha lendlela kuthwa nguqo ngqothwane The witchdoctor of the road is said to be the knocking beetle Seleqabele gqi thapha nguqo ngqothwane He has passed by up the steep hill, the knocking beetle Selequbule gqi thapha nguqo ngqothwane He did pass by up the steep hill, the knocking beetle
People complaining about the dead audience, and I'm just here glad to finally be able to enjoy a stage performance without the annoying crowd reactions ruining the flow.
We people are used to cheering and clapping 😂😂😂😂. When these people respect her performance and want to hear every single word. The control on her voice is sooooo magical. Goosebumps all over.
She got a standing ovation in America so I'm guessing they feel she's being disrespected. I get it but silence isn't always meant as a negative gesture. Sometimes it is of the utmost respect. Like tasting something for the first time and savoring the EXPERIENCE. The end reaction was the honest one.
So grateful for the respectful audience - no clapping or cheering during Siki Jo-An's performance - respect other people's culture - not everyone needs to be noisily cheering to acknowledge a great performance. Love that song & so love Siki Jo-An
Right, just ridiculous, doesn't know true and beautiful music when its heard. I know if I was there I wouldn't be sitting in that old chair just looking, because I would be up dancing and looking in amazement. Her voice and the language is awesome. Love it.
I just discovered Miriam Makeba and her click song that she sang back in the 60s learned about her activism in South Africa against apartheid and how they banned her from her country and she couldn't even go to her own Mother's funeral what a beautiful woman oh my goodness the things that she had to go through is just unbelievable. I wish they would teach these things in our kids school so that we could look up to these people as Heroes and find examples of ways that we should be in our own lives how we should respect others and stand up for what is right and that's what she did she was known way more than just for the click song she was a hero!!!
Miriam Makeba reached us on a little remote island called Molokai in Hawaii During the 60’s. I remember the clicking and thought this was a trip!! Awesome.
Yeah! Alice from Canada. You remind me of a very nice Canadian lady who headed a company with such a good heart and looked out for the native employees in South Africa ❤
This audience was underserving! It is no homage at all to sit there with arms folded when such epic vibes pour out of the throat of a single performer. Ugh!!!! My apologies, Queen Siki
What a strange audience. I thought I was watching a sea of corpses. Mind you I did see one excited person clapping. Just to add she was magnificent.....loved her performance and I would deffo have been rocking it🥳.. UK.x
I am very happy to see all South Africa, all race and colour, in Harmony , doing things together, God Almight keep you and your country together, for ever in peace.
One thing I can say about the audience yeah they did look kind of mesmerized maybe people are looking at it the wrong way I know that if I paid the money to go there I'd want to hear every single sound she made and I would be upset if people were being loud and I couldn't hear her. Maybe that's what was going on because I know just watching it on screen I couldn't move she hypnotizes you it is amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!
Unbelievable! Her voice and range are spectacular, but the true beauty is the energy she brings to belting out those words in her native tongue. It's artful! Makes me miss South Africa so deeply.
As a kid I listened to the original by Ms Miram Makeba being regularly played by my mom. I eventually in my 30's saw Ms Miriam perform on stage in Trinidad and Tobago. Even as a much more mature and seasoned performer by that time, she did not disappoint. That Siki Jo-an has offered this moving rendition of the Click Song, has made a fan of me all over again. I get the goosebumps all over again. Thank you Siki.
It's great not to have the audience screaming over a performer's voice for a change. It's brilliant to be able to enjoy a performance without it! Thank god they respect the amazing sounds enough to actually listen!
Dios mío como batalle para poder volver escuchar a esta mujer con una majestuosa voz mi piel se pone chinita nada más escucharla que tal si entendiera el idioma una raza estupenda en todos los sentidos😍😍
Siki Jo-An when a white girl become envious of a black woman, she looks like you and has your talent and radiance! You‘re BEAUTIFUL! 🥰 We want you to become a world wide star! A bit like Jerusalema.. Let the sunshine in! Bless you and thanks for your grace!
The soul cannot bask fully in the blessing being endowed if people are making noise. The audience is not dead, it is truly appreciative of a voice straight from heaven.
Not only has she got stage presence and she can sing, she is a very attractive woman. I’m 75 years old and I’ve enjoyed this way of talking since I was about 4. I lived in a place called Swaziland surrounded by South Africa, I went to boarding school in South Africa, I lived in Africa for 18 years and I would sit and listen to these people speaking the clicking language, we called it Kwella, it was probably wrong, they used to talk it so fast making different clicks with their tongue, absolutely fascinating, being only a little kid, sometimes they would look at me and speak in whispers. I’m sure they used to think I understood the language, but I’m afraid I didn’t, I just enjoyed listening to it.
Bloody hell, that audience what the actual hell. On another note! That was beautiful. I absolutely love her and this song. I never get enough of it. Always manages to give me goosebumps even though I don't understand it.
Absolutely speechless the song speaks volumes of history culture art and beauty and love and marriage! Also to the audience quite comments. In other countries I’m Europe,Africa, and South America it’s actually rude to cheer over the singer because they feel the art is supposed to be absorbed and then you can let out your feelings of admiration at the end! Sometime a cheer can last mins after a song has finished ! Anyway she is phenomenal and the Late Miss Makeba was a legend!
Guys they just turn the audiences audio down so you can hear her singing because that was a big complaint with her first prefomance it was beautiful but you couldn't hear it well and her voice deserved to be heard
I did not understand what she was saying and how she managed to click that beautiful tongue but oh boy she is a horse power.... I would love to learn how to and of course have a pleasure to meet her. Kudos from Malawi
She is beyond amazing! Such as incredible energy and performance wasted on that souless audience. If I ever see Siki performing live. I will break my fingers applauding at the end of her show.
I thought people were being dramatic abt the stale audience until I heard her say “now sing” and not a peep. No one even TRIED that’s sad. I was singing along fr
She is really a good singer. She would do OK at any arena, even withouth this speciality as these click-sounds, click language. Just to invite and give her a contract, if you do need an excellent singer. :)
I'm Jamaican I have no idea what she's singing but this song give me goose bumps...🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤❤❤
It is a South African wedding song that was originally performed by: Miriam Makeba *live in1963. copy & paste to see video> th-cam.com/video/rjo8h5qLpU0/w-d-xo.html
Same, Jamaican here and I am loving her perfornance 👏🏾👏🏾🙌🏾✊🏽
I also don‘t unterstand but Miriam Makeba did say It’s a wedding song
Igqira lendlela nguqo ngqothwane
The road’s witchdoctor is the knocking beetle
Igqirha lendlela kuthwa nguqo ngqothwane
The witchdoctor of the road is said to be the knocking beetle
Seleqabele gqi thapha nguqo ngqothwane
He has passed by up the steep hill, the knocking beetle
Selequbule gqi thapha nguqo ngqothwane
He did pass by up the steep hill, the knocking beetle
People complaining about the dead audience, and I'm just here glad to finally be able to enjoy a stage performance without the annoying crowd reactions ruining the flow.
They're mesmerized!
I told my daughter the same thing about another artist performance.I paid to enjoy a concert not rude people.
Yes!
Xhosa is such a wonderful language. It was a pleasure to hear
Sis over delivered for this audience
That was good
We people are used to cheering and clapping 😂😂😂😂. When these people respect her performance and want to hear every single word. The control on her voice is sooooo magical. Goosebumps all over.
She got a standing ovation in America so I'm guessing they feel she's being disrespected. I get it but silence isn't always meant as a negative gesture. Sometimes it is of the utmost respect. Like tasting something for the first time and savoring the EXPERIENCE. The end reaction was the honest one.
So grateful for the respectful audience - no clapping or cheering during Siki Jo-An's performance - respect other people's culture - not everyone needs to be noisily cheering to acknowledge a great performance. Love that song & so love Siki Jo-An
Black women, loud, proud and absolutely beautiful!!
Perioddd!!!
You just had to mention her skin color didn't you.
@@ioijiopjkiopjkp Yes! Because only Black women can sing in that language. And also only them have that sass.
@@alicegauteng2358 that's one of the most racist things I've heard. Congratulations on being a literal racist.
@@ioijiopjkiopjkp Why the Hell not...THAT IS WHAT SHE IS.. SEE IT, KNOW IT AND BOW DOWN TO THAT BEAUTY!!!
This stale ass audience just wasn’t hype enough for me or for her... she was delivering a whole ass performance. Go sis, GO!!
They were overwhelmed
Thank you! My thoughts exactly
Right, just ridiculous, doesn't know true and beautiful music when its heard. I know if I was there I wouldn't be sitting in that old chair just looking, because I would be up dancing and looking in amazement. Her voice and the language is awesome. Love it.
I was thinking the same... I was about to jump through my computer to be in that audience to enjoy the life she was giving me!!
I agree! She was magnificent… couldn’t believe the lame audience!
Love from Papua New Guinea🇵🇬 . When this lady sings she used to give me goosebumps. Powerful voice
I'm impacted when an Afrikaner speaking Xhosa... Beautiful 🇿🇦
Greetings from Latin America
What a powerful and yet trained voice. Appluase from Atlanta Ga, USA
I just discovered Miriam Makeba and her click song that she sang back in the 60s learned about her activism in South Africa against apartheid and how they banned her from her country and she couldn't even go to her own Mother's funeral what a beautiful woman oh my goodness the things that she had to go through is just unbelievable. I wish they would teach these things in our kids school so that we could look up to these people as Heroes and find examples of ways that we should be in our own lives how we should respect others and stand up for what is right and that's what she did she was known way more than just for the click song she was a hero!!!
She is amazingly bold and beautiful. Apart from Miriam Makeba I have never heard of anyone else brave enough to sing this difficult song!
It shoudn't be difficult to a xhosa.
It’s probably just difficult cause you don’t speak the language
Just search "click song" and you'll find plenty of people singing it. My favorite is a video from Beyond Zulu TV.
Miriam Makeba reached us on a little remote island called Molokai in Hawaii During the 60’s. I remember the clicking and thought this was a trip!! Awesome.
January 2021...who's seeing this with me
beautiful lady, beautiful song
February 2021😁
March 2021
April 2021
October 2023
She is unbelievable.
It looks like the audience did not appreciate her African language and culture and pronunciation of their language. It’s so sad.
South Africans show respect by being quiet when someone good is performing
Her voice is absolutely amazing, can't wait for the words to translated to ENGLISH.....
Sankofa
Still get goosebumps watching from🇿🇲🇿🇲Love this
They couldn’t find her an audience of her people? I don’t feel this audience know....
Wym "her" people?
Chills, Bro. What a powerful presence she holds. So proud to be a South African
Then get a south african name then... Thomas is surel not a xhosa name or the like...
She makes me Proud to be a black South African woman. And I’m a white Scottish man
The audience is like dead fish. They got more excited when the white guy was speaking broken Xhosa than the absolute amazing talent that followed
My excuse? I was in awe of her performance.
And all white audience
Yeah! Alice from Canada. You remind me of a very nice Canadian lady who headed a company with such a good heart and looked out for the native employees in South Africa ❤
This made me so proud to be Xhosa, I love my language we take it for granted but it actually is kinda unique
The kind song that speaks to your soul and you feel your ancestors. I understand why the audience is quiet ❤️
How lovely to hear a male voice singing this beautiful song.
This audience was underserving! It is no homage at all to sit there with arms folded when such epic vibes pour out of the throat of a single performer. Ugh!!!! My apologies, Queen Siki
I have rarely been so proud to be African. God bless you!!!
There is no life in there do your thing Sisi. What a Majestic performance to the entire world. Wow. Extraordinary!
And all white
She is out of this world!
Awesome!
That crowd was total dead!
Right that audience was wack!!
they are so lost..DEAD..DEAD..to comfortable
True.
HAHAHA right!
What a strange audience. I thought I was watching a sea of corpses. Mind you I did see one excited person clapping. Just to add she was magnificent.....loved her performance and I would deffo have been rocking it🥳.. UK.x
From Ethiopia 🇪🇹 yor are amazing ❤
Loved her on The Voice. She's exceptional ❤
I am very happy to see all South Africa, all race and colour, in Harmony , doing things together, God Almight keep you and your country together, for ever in peace.
We are all one in the eyes of god
Amen
All we need to do now is share the land and other resources.
One thing I can say about the audience yeah they did look kind of mesmerized maybe people are looking at it the wrong way I know that if I paid the money to go there I'd want to hear every single sound she made and I would be upset if people were being loud and I couldn't hear her. Maybe that's what was going on because I know just watching it on screen I couldn't move she hypnotizes you it is amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!
Unbelievable! Her voice and range are spectacular, but the true beauty is the energy she brings to belting out those words in her native tongue. It's artful! Makes me miss South Africa so deeply.
beautiful .. i can't get enough of her!!!!
At a loss for words.... My tears for Mama Miriam Makeba 😍🤩😭
As a kid I listened to the original by Ms Miram Makeba being regularly played by my mom. I eventually in my 30's saw Ms Miriam perform on stage in Trinidad and Tobago. Even as a much more mature and seasoned performer by that time, she did not disappoint. That Siki Jo-an has offered this moving rendition of the Click Song, has made a fan of me all over again. I get the goosebumps all over again. Thank you Siki.
She is a power house. Electrifying. Wow!!!!
If I try this, I'll end up with a sore tongue. You nailed it, sistah! 🔥🙌💓
I almost cut my tongue out
@@PAULI_VINITO lol! It should've come with a 'don't try this at home' note attached. 😂😂
Lamaqaba aqaba imbola aqhatha amagqirha athi aqeqeshwe ezingqondweni
It's great not to have the audience screaming over a performer's voice for a change. It's brilliant to be able to enjoy a performance without it!
Thank god they respect the amazing sounds enough to actually listen!
Dios mío como batalle para poder volver escuchar a esta mujer con una majestuosa voz mi piel se pone chinita nada más escucharla que tal si entendiera el idioma una raza estupenda en todos los sentidos😍😍
Phenomenal
Algún día la escucharé en vivo, saludos desde México, es increíble está mujer.
band did NOT do her justice
Siki Jo-An when a white girl become envious of a black woman, she looks like you and has your talent and radiance! You‘re BEAUTIFUL! 🥰 We want you to become a world wide star! A bit like Jerusalema.. Let the sunshine in! Bless you and thanks for your grace!
Comment elle a pu faire une chose magnifique avec la chanson j’en peux pas moi 🥰🥰😍😍🥰
Je te dit
The soul cannot bask fully in the blessing being endowed if people are making noise. The audience is not dead, it is truly appreciative of a voice straight from heaven.
Not only has she got stage presence and she can sing, she is a very attractive woman. I’m 75 years old and I’ve enjoyed this way of talking since I was about 4. I lived in a place called Swaziland surrounded by South Africa, I went to boarding school in South Africa, I lived in Africa for 18 years and I would sit and listen to these people speaking the clicking language, we called it Kwella, it was probably wrong, they used to talk it so fast making different clicks with their tongue, absolutely fascinating, being only a little kid, sometimes they would look at me and speak in whispers. I’m sure they used to think I understood the language, but I’m afraid I didn’t, I just enjoyed listening to it.
Bloody hell, that audience what the actual hell. On another note! That was beautiful. I absolutely love her and this song. I never get enough of it. Always manages to give me goosebumps even though I don't understand it.
Ni falta que hace entenderla ,que vos, que vos ,se erisa la piel y faltan palabras
Bravo Siki!
Uyakwazi ukunxulumana nabaphulaphuli kwaye isingqisho solwimi siyavakala. Ngxatsho ke nzwakazi ❤️🔥👌🎼.
Absolutely speechless the song speaks volumes of history culture art and beauty and love and marriage! Also to the audience quite comments. In other countries I’m Europe,Africa, and South America it’s actually rude to cheer over the singer because they feel the art is supposed to be absorbed and then you can let out your feelings of admiration at the end! Sometime a cheer can last mins after a song has finished ! Anyway she is phenomenal and the Late Miss Makeba was a legend!
I am jamaican I grew up in the 80s listing to the original by mis Miriam mackeba
So proud to be Xhosa right 🥺❤🔥
SUCH A QUEEEEEN!!!
The control of her voice!!!!!!!!❤
Absolutely fantastic ... whoop, whoop ...♥️🌟♥️🌟♥️🌟
Maravilhosa,assistindo de Salvador Ba, Brasil 😍😍
This is beautiful, the song, the click, the culture, darn, I wish I was there watching her!
Mood boosted!
Singing this good and dancing the same time is extremely hard, yet she did it beautifully, I just love it ❤❤❤❤❤
Amazing voice! Hats off! What a wonderful Diva of South Africa! Magnifique et bravo from France!
Omg!!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ ( no clue what she’s saying but discovered Siki a while back and just.... Wow!)
Google translates it.😊
It's a wedding song about beetles
Guys they just turn the audiences audio down so you can hear her singing because that was a big complaint with her first prefomance it was beautiful but you couldn't hear it well and her voice deserved to be heard
Unit black and white the color of blood is red in every human believe in good the 10 comenments
No
Amo essa mulher, que voz potente !!!
I did not understand what she was saying and how she managed to click that beautiful tongue but oh boy she is a horse power.... I would love to learn how to and of course have a pleasure to meet her. Kudos from Malawi
Povo infeliz, seco... Foi ai fazer o quê? So olhar?? Sinceramente...
Publikum ist sooo schlecht!
Shit she makes me so proud to be African!
Voz linda....que extensão e malabarismo vocal!!!!
Lindo demais!!!!!
Perez Patricia Jones Cynthia Hernandez Dorothy
I love to hear her sing. I love African music
She is beyond amazing!
Such as incredible energy and performance wasted on that souless audience.
If I ever see Siki performing live. I will break my fingers applauding at the end of her show.
Wowww he tried 👏😂😂🙈🙈👏👏👏🙈🙈
chills all over my body! Sista ! Yes Deliver 👏🏽 I love my people.
Amazing woman with Amazing voice!💓💓💓💓💓💓💓
What’s “qoqothwane” ke ngoku? Yhu hay’ nawe 😭😭🙅🏽♂️🙅🏽♂️
Awesome. Audience reactions are poor. But the again it would have been disturbing anyway.
Brown Elizabeth Young John Gonzalez Linda
Ancient African civilizations were visited many times by advanced alien civilizations including the reptiles.
How do yall do it while speaking? That click sound !!!I love it !!!!!
This woman is unbelievable. Shoutout from Romania ❤
I thought people were being dramatic abt the stale audience until I heard her say “now sing” and not a peep. No one even TRIED that’s sad. I was singing along fr
Young Steven Hall Matthew Thomas Gary
It's funny when my African guy is trying to teach this guy, but the pronunciation of uQongqothwane is wrong
💕❤🤗😍😭
That was an awful introduction. The host is like stale bread.
Agree, I almost stopped right there,
Walker William Jackson Richard Taylor David
This audience is so much not African, if this audience was African I guarantee you that the vibe would have been 🔥
She is really a good singer. She would do OK at any arena, even withouth this speciality as these click-sounds, click language. Just to invite and give her a contract, if you do need an excellent singer. :)
She warms my heart, so beautiful indeed.❤
For me, until now, was Miriam, who really got very loud clicks going, But Wow Siki, fantastic. xx
Jones Eric Johnson Margaret Williams Charles
hey i fell totally in love with the clicks woww starting to learn.
Hahaha its like a sing from the forest mountaims but i like the sound even i cant amderatand hehehw
I rlly love the song and her voice it gives so much summer vibes
Thomas Elizabeth Brown Kenneth Lee John
Garcia Kimberly Thomas Gary Davis Jeffrey
Bful song...
Someone plz share the meaning of this Xhosa song
Where can I find the lyrics to this song?
Beautiful music!