When Johnny Clegg first brought his half-Zulu, half-white band Juluka to Europe, amazed audiences saw a young white man singing in Zulu, playing traditional guitar riffs and nailing difficult, high-kicking indlamu war dances with his lithe partner Dudu Zulu. French fans dubbed Clegg "Le Zoulou Blanc" (The White Zulu). Born in England, raised in Zimbabwe and Zambia, Clegg landed in Johannesburg, South Africa a shy, inarticulate boy of 12, who by his own account hated school and music. A chance encounter with an old Zulu street guitarist caught Clegg's ear, and led him to Zulu culture. Clegg teamed up with guitarist and songwriter Sipho Mchunu to form Juluka. In South Africa, Juluka alarmed authorities by presenting black and white musicians together on stage. When the group's potent marriage of Zulu war songs and English folk-rock caught on, Juluka faced bomb threats, concert shutdowns and racism from both the black and white music industries. Mchunu retired to his farm in 1986, and Clegg formed a more western pop-oriented outfit called Savuka, which continues to record hits and wow audiences, especially abroad. Savuka performed its resonant tribute to political victims of apartheid, "Asimbonanga," at Nelson Mandela's inauguration. In the wake of Dudu Zulu's murder in 1993, and South Africa's new political reality, Clegg has moved on to new projects--a revived Juluka with Mchunu on board, an album in the Sotho language, an autobiographical film, and a campaign to bolster South African pop on local radio and stages in the face of new international competition introduced by the lifting of apartheid's barriers.