Music Video Monday: Johnny Clegg and Savuka

A year ago, I started the special feature "Music Video Monday" to showcase a video or song that I really love that you may have never even heard before. In that year, I'm impressed by the diverse selection I've chosen, but it isn't surprising, considering that represents my diverse musical style.

Yesterday was Johnny Clegg's 56th birthday. To mark this one year anniversary, I decided to go with another Johnny Clegg song: "The Crossing", which I consider to be his best music video. It has a spiritual theme to it. That shouldn't be surprising, as he wrote this song in honour of his friend and bandmate Dudu Zulu, who was murdered in a carjacking, if I'm not mistaken, in 1992. The first time I saw this video was on the night of my robbery experience in Johnannesburg. After returning to the safety of my hotel room, I had time to reflect on the events that had just taken place an hour or two earlier, and I had the television on for company. I turned it to a South African music video channel and heard Elton John's "Can You Feel the Love Tonight?" for the first time. To this day, that song is associated with my experience of that night. But when Johnny Clegg's video came on, I think I truly lost it at that point. Talk about a close call! Because of that event, I measure my life from that moment forward. It could have been one of my "exit points" that I refused to take at that time. What a life I've lived since then.

Anyhow...enjoy the video! I'll resume blogging when I have some good news to announce (or if an important event or milestone anniversary occurs). I don't see that happening until at least Bastille Day, but you never know.