Penny Penny - Amarumasi
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The rags-to-riches chronicle of Penny Penny’s life would be remarkable if he had only released his smash debut Shaka Bundu and packed houses for a few years. But the inimitable South African singer and dancer known for his trademark top ponytail and emphatic anthems was no one-hit wonder. In the aftermath of Shaka Bundu’s nationwide explosion, far beyond his country the album resonated with ever bigger audiences.
He performed up and down the continent, building fanbases in more than a dozen countries. So his sophomore album Yogo Yogo-released in 1996-solidified Penny Penny’s standing in pop music nationally and provided new energy to his pan-African stadium-filling adventures.
“I was very busy between Shaka Bundu and Yogo Yogo. Shows every week, local and outside the country. There was no relaxing from 1995 until 1999.”
The album also reflects the era in which it emerged. If Shaka Bundu arrived triumphantly amid newfound political freedom in South Africa with the end of Apartheid and Nelson Mandela’s election, Yogo Yogo was a next level expression for the maturing artist.
He wanted to get a message out. Composed with Joe Shirimani, who also produced the album, the sound and compositional style echoes the earlier recording but the topical nature of the lyrics became more deliberate, more didactic.
In the song “Ingani” Penny proclaims, we are all one people even though we may speak different languages, we are all Nguni-a larger historical grouping that includes many of the ethnic groups in modern South Africa.
“Kulani Kulani,” which means grow up, urges young people to say no to drugs and yes to education. Ama Owners, referring to the public transport drivers involved in violent rumbles, asks the nation’s drivers to relax because we need them for our safe arrival.
Penny’s success as a Xitsonga artist should not be under-estimated in the context of popular music at the time in South Africa. “When I started with my own style and image, first time in Shangaan we had artist like me,” Penny explains. “Our music was traditional before. But I brought a mix of rock and disco and it became the bomb. Every star won’t be popular without your own style.”
It took them eight days to finish album, writing the songs in the studio. Penny says, “The songs just happened. Joe is very good at listening and producing, he has lots of patience. When he played the keyboard I would sing, standing behind him once he finished the rhythm, I would sing it all in one take, non-stop. We were not using computers to record, we were singing live. And we pressed the music on cassette and vinyl-not CD-back then."
Fast-forward to 2020, Penny Penny is deep in the political game and appears on television 6 times a week as the star of his own reality TV show, “Papa Penny Ahee!”. He is setting up an avocado farm and provides fifty families in his region with food every month via his charitable foundation. Penny still plays huge shows around South Africa and will appear at some Europe’s biggest festivals in 2021.
Am from ethiopia ......nazret children's are fallen in love with this music
The most beloved song ever among Ethiopians even though we don't know what is was about
Me and my brother's stole the cassette from our elder sisters and till date 2022 almost 30years my best jam I still have the radio cassette tape.
Merci beaucoup de la première fois que
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U make the best decision😂
Brings back childhood memories.... memories of my late Mom when I went to visit her me and my sister I got to hear the song from her people and I fell Inlove with the song 1997 from Nigeria....may your soul rest in peace Mom!
Jamming with this masterpiece in 2023 from 🇪🇷
Around the later part of 1998 my dad never stopped playing this song during his relaxation period.
What a memory!
Rest on dad!!!
Love from Nigeria 🇳🇬
big ups
😢 B
Same here dear
Big love from Ethiopa!!!This use to play in every corner of Addis Abeba!!!
Me too
Yes we are
Penny music sounds too sweet on my ears my childhood till now and even though I don’t know the language I repeatedly listened at all times. Colossal love ❤from my country, Ethiopia 🇪🇹 esp. my city, Jigjiga. 🇪🇹 🇪🇹❤🇪🇹 🇪🇹
You have no idea how I screamed when I heard this song in my car. My dad used to play it for us in Nigeria in the late 90s.
My child hood ill never forget Penny Penny ... he speakes my mother tang Changane... Mozambique 🇲🇿🇲🇿🇲🇿
Brings back memories back in the mid 90s listening to him on Radio 2 in Zimbabwe. That's the first time I came to know that a legend called Penny Penny exists. Moved to UK 20yrs ago, had forgotten about him till I went to a Ndebele house party yesterday and found out about him.
And watch him on ezomgido mutinhimira yemimhanzi
Yes chokwadi ichocho Zim ichafaya
I remember jamming to these songs on cassette with big "Omega" speakers, must have been around 1994 in a small mining Zimbabwe 🇿🇼 town called Zvishavane / Shabanie... Remember Girlie Mafura had also released a Swahili song "Kucheza Nawewe"... great memories
Most of these guys/artists then, enjoyed their fame and made money outside SA, especially in Zimbabwe, at a time that country had a stronger currency than us. And we did not have the freedom to be out to enjoy as we do today. Today Zimbabwe nationals are treated with disdain in SA.
King penny
Dankie for the memories, lol, mazuva azvona dhigongo yaitopedza masports
@@mkhululikhumalo9592people are not against Zimbabwean nationals but them taking advantage of South Africa and importing criminal activities here
Penny Penny songs remind me of my grandfather. He used to play it around the 90s
Long before he met mama Nomy 😂 gone are those days... This song brings back good memories
When everyone was still alive 😢..#Masterpiece
Am from ethiopia we use to listen it in 19s
Because of this song we used to call the whole genre “” 😀 Good old times
From Abidjan IVORY COAST 🇨🇮🇨🇮🇨🇮
this song reminds me too many memories since my childhood i don't understand the lyrics i like ❤❤ this song i'm from ivory🇨🇮 coast
Still rocking penny penny ❤
2022 and we still here😍😍😍😍hahaha remember when i was young in 90s this song was a party song 👌👌👌👌👌masterpiece
Still my favorite of all. 🥰 Zambia
Sa fait plaisir d'écouter ce son en 2022 ,sa me rappelle de mon enfance, merci pour la joie que nous a donné l'artiste🙏🙏💖!
Love this song. Mali 🇲🇱 ❤️
It was really good those days 😂😂😂😂
Qddaqd😭
Jesus loves you all and have a great day also remember to not say the Lords name in vein and to say your blessings before you eat food. Also remember to love like Jesus does and to not hate anyone no matter what.
The great man had great sounds indeed, I used to underrate him but not anymore 🙌🙌
Good music, nice song. São Paulo-Brasil
Oh my god!!!... I can't tell how much i love penny's musics!!!... He disserve all of african even world music award!!!... Thank you very much baba penny 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏👍👍👍👍you are the best ever!!!!.....
Lively soundtracks from bundu big thanks from Fuad in sierra Leone capital Free town the country full of milk and honey
A great statesman, a living legend....
oooo mon dieu.... incroyable! Ce genre de musique me manquait. génial! 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🤩🤩🤩🤩
We naz Boyz we love you penny penny
Brings me back to my fav days penny penny
my childhood memory second track peny peny
adama nazreth 🇪🇹Ethiopia ❤
2023 still listening to Penny Penny
My childhood memory! I listened to it with great enthusiasm and passion. Long live to Music! I am from Addis Ababa!
My childhood artist....penny penny❤💃💃
Heard this on tape cassette, ..i think! (Our neghbor broight it on his trip abroad)
I cherish the song so much even though I don't understand the language but the lyrics is interesting.
Used to dance to this woow gone are the days 😜😜
I cry when listening to these songs brings a lot of memories in my life
I'm a Ghanian but always like his music and I don't understand The language
it sounds good here in Jamaica...end of 2023! Big-Up Papa Penny
My uncle introduced me to digong music 🎶 1996 when I was 6, RIP uncle sibangali
C’est vraiment magnifique !!
GOAT ahee papa penny
In Ethiopian calendar 1987 to 89 i remember this guy's music was a hit.
Carries the reminiscences of my Zimbabwe childhood in the late 1990s! Boy, how we danced to it in its style
I love that almost all his songs is the same Beast 🎉
Living legend... Long live penny penny
Me lembro em 1995 a sair nos ritos de iniciação Penny Penny👌💪
መልካም አዲስ አመት 🇪🇹🇪🇹 ❤
i am back to 90's my childhood at 2023 i love the song....
Pour toute une génération à l'époque.
2021 still listening to the king
Who also are her in 2021
My favourite 🎶🎶 this song is still a hit 🔥💥💯
Back then oooh life was so sweet ❤
My fever classical music 4ever
We mixed things up with this music in Liberia as peace keeping force during the civil war mid 90s
I danced to this number as a child in 1996
When music would take you to horizons unknown...
Vraiment c, est de bon souvenir.
I love this song too much 🎉🎉🎉🎉
Nice groove.
Cool groove
2024 still listening
From 🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬
This is reminding me my brother in law
Amarumas mah ♥ 👍😉🔥🔥🔥🔥
You music make me remember freetown S L 1999 war
Muito obrigado pela estás palavras eu amo muito 👍👏👏👏♥️🌷🇬🇧
Trop cool c'est musique
Nice
nice songs
UNE MUSIQUE QUI À MARQUER MON ENFANCE
Even in Togo that year we vibes the song
Hi I will love Penny 💝
Yes
Still here from Ethiopia❤
Peni peni 🙏🙏💕💕💕😎
Naaaazzzii
Yes👍👍
Apoo 👊🏾🕺🕺💃
Classic song
2024🎉💃🔥
❤❤❤
Cool 😁🤩
Just imagine this song mixed with amapiano.
I love this song when i has 18
Digong...good old memories
It's cool you mention digong, i feel like a lot of people forgot about this style name from that period of early kwaito
I'm not a gaul in anyway forever and ever. I'm an Aborigene. I'm a complete Briton celt in every way forever and ever. In Jesus Christ's name 🏴🇬🇧🇸🇱🇺🇸🇬🇧🇸🇱
One Of My Favorite Songs Very Hot One
Paney❤❤❤
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Amaringa sima nice music
Don’t understand what he is saying but i guess amarumasi like “rumours”.. Anywhere this is some good grooves 👊🏾
Yeah! It's probably rumours. I don't understand too but this is good vibes 🔥
Yes it is... he says people spread rumors about him being dead but he still living
He says that some
Super
😍
I remember my ankle 1995
Who 's here in 2022