Paul Simon - Under African Skies (Live from The African Concert, 1987)

Excellent

Wow. It’s November 2023 as i type this and still….WOW. 🥰

❤😊

my go to music...beautiful

During the height of “Apartheid”

It’s often painted much worse than it was

I used to have tea and a sandwich with a black friend in a township in the late 70’s

What can l say, Paul has such a glint in his eyes, that's what makes him so nice, that bow at the end..... This is a really special man, he must be good.❣️

What a wonderful choices at that wonderful times

So glad Art Simon was one of artists who broke black barrier in South Africa! It shook them in Johannesburg at the change that they had to make!

Can't stop listening 👂 to this masterpiece of composition. It's always a bomb 💣

what a marvel she is. they both are.

Mama Africa

He had massive respect for her, enough to change his own lyric "from Tucson Arizona" to her own hometown.

How i loved this song as a child...Legends!

Amazing

This show in April 1987 at Radio City Music Hall changed my life.

Proudly African.. Greetings🎉 South Africa

Can't believe Miriam Makeba isn't even mentioned in the credits for this song. What a travesty! 🤨

I live for this part😭👏🙌🔥

My late mother had a cd copy of this album bought as a gift by her American employer, a very good album to listen to.

I like this song

Born From Tucson Arizona

I remember listening to this song back in Nigeria as a young boy. Wonderful memories. God bless Africa❤

I❤ the song very much thank you

❤Paul Simon and mama Miriam ❤

Poxa!!! incrível!!!

Miriam and Simon…. Pure class!

this song moves to the core

She was so beautiful

Wow. Would that even happen today. Really amazing

Fun video. Good song. Paul Simon has a love for African music and it shows in the instrument he puts together in his songs. My recommendation is to go to him singing in South Africa”Under African Skies” from his African concert (1987) I think it’s in Zulu and English beautiful song about Africa👍😊❤️

I remember watching this entire concert with my family as a child.

A true masterpiece

Wowza

When the performance will be presented and displayed to the crowd as if is spontaneous, you must know that the performers are naturally gifted.

Later on, Thandiswa Mazwai also did justice to the song. More importantly, she owned, or should I say, she conquered the stage.

Anyway, continue to rest well Mama Afrika!

Miriam Makeba: fucking, wow. Just wow.

Jeez this is beautiful ..I love the way Paul admires singing with Miriam and how she can feel the rhythm with her breath hah

I love his songs ,❤ credit to our mother Mama Africa

Shame Linda Ronstadt did not appear for this performance.

Paul is so cute here❤

Respectful exchange of culture in the name of civilization and musicality everywhere.

This song was so powerful to me as a child. My first best friend was black, but she became my bully in third grade to prove to her friends she didn't like white people. I was stabbed, and other things happened that were even worse, and I became afraid of black girls, but after years of dealing with that I knew it wasn't really about race. Bullying can happen to anyone. "Joseph's face was black as night." but it was his own brothers that sold him into slavery. And it was Joseph who forgave them. This song talks about how we are the same. Love and evil is in each of us. We choose. I choose to forgive. (Edit: as I finish watching the video, I can't help thinking this song probably helped me process that pain and enabled me to forgive. Thank you, P.S.)

This is so awesome to see Miriam Makeba I remember her singing the click song and other folk songs .

Joseph's face was black as night
The pale yellow moon shone in his eyes
His path was marked
By the stars in the Southern Hemisphere
And he walked his days
Under African skies

This is the story of how we begin to remember
This is the powerful pulsing of love in the vein
After the dream of falling and calling your name out
These are the roots of rhythm
And the roots of rhythm remain

In early memory
Mission music
Was ringing 'round my nursery door
I said take this child, Lord
From Tucson Arizona
Give her the wings to fly through harmony
And she won't bother you no more
This is the story of how we begin to remember
This is the powerful pulsing of love in the vein
After the dream of falling and calling your name out
These are the roots of rhythm
And the roots of rhythm remain
Joseph's face was as black as the night
And the pale yellow moon shone in his eyes
His path was marked
By the stars in the Southern Hemisphere
And he walked the length of his days
Under African skies

❤

This is the whole point of music, art, passion, fortitude, respect and love for all that is good in this world. The corresponding album and subsequent tour were among the most eloquent and socially binding of all time. The way that Paul notices the world and puts it into lyrics is mind blowing enough but this moment on stage with Miriam speaks of admiration for one another. It's beautiful.

Could be one of the greatest songs ever written

Joseph's face was black as night
The pale yellow moon shone in his eyes
His path was marked
By the stars in the Southern Hemisphere
And he walked his days
Under African skies
This is the story of how we begin to remember
This is the powerful pulsing of love in the vein
After the dream of falling and calling your name out
These are the roots of rhythm
And the roots of rhythm remain
In early memory
Mission music
Was ringing 'round my nursery door
I said take this child, Lord
From Tucson Arizona
Give her the wings to fly through harmony
And she won't bother you no more
This is the story of how we begin to remember
This is the powerful pulsing of love in the vein
After the dream of falling and calling your name out
These are the roots of rhythm
And the roots of rhythm remain
Joseph's face was as black as the night
And the pale yellow moon shone in his eyes
His path was marked
By the stars in the Southern Hemisphere
And he walked the length of his days
Under African skies

Two voices in perfect harmony, one superb sound. I've listened to this so many times and it still moves me.

holy!

These songs can't die, I'm listening and can't help but dance, I'm Jamaican what did you expect!!