Thursday music corner: Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes is an album track and the fourth single from Paul Simon’s most popular solo album, the 16-million-selling, 1987 Grammy Awards Album of the Year, Graceland. Written in Apartheid-era South Africa and recorded in New York, the track features backing vocals from Ladysmith Black Mambazo. Their Zulu refrain, Wikipedia reports, translates roughly to ‘It’s not usual but in our days we see those things happen. They are women, they can take care of themselves’. Simon’s band’s percussion section included Youssou N’Dour, the Senegalese singer who would later attain fame as an enormously popular African recording artist and as Senegal’s Minister of Tourism.
Paul Simon w/ Ladysmith Black Mambazo – Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes (1986)
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