Goapele closer soundtrack10/31/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Nowhere is this more apparent than in the upbringing of Goapele Mohlabane, the daughter of an exiled South African political activist father and a New York born Isreali activist mother who grew up in a South African exile community in Oakland, California. However, it isn’t half satisfying to see a politically charged artist who actually grew up in a politically charged environment. Bear in mind that it would be profoundly stupid to suggest that their upbringing, something they’d have no control over whatsoever, tempers their revolutionary spirit and lessens their message. After all, Joe Strummer was a privately educated son of a diplomat for the crown itself, John Lennon grew up comfortably in a semi-detatched house and went to art school as well. A renegade spirit can come from anywhere, it seems.
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