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The lion sleeps well tonight.


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 of the South African man who wrote the 1939 song that became known as "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" won a huge share of royalties from the song that has been covered countless times and appeared on the soundtracks of at least 15 major films. Solomon Linda's song "Mbube," the Zulu word for lion, was the first pop hit from Africa, selling 100,000 copies in the 1940s. Under apartheid apartheid (əpärt`hīt) [Afrik.,=apartness], system of racial segregation peculiar to the Republic of South Africa, the legal basis of which was largely repealed in 1991–92.  laws that prevented Blacks from negotiating over rights to music, Linda sold the track for less than $2. His family will now receive 25 percent of past and future royalties. With the song featured in Disney's "The Lion King," according to according to
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Title Annotation:READING BETWEEN THE HEADLINES
Author:Chaddha, Anmol
Publication:Colorlines Magazine
Date:Jul 1, 2006
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