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A Grammy Award ( originally called Gramophone Award ), or Grammy , is an honor awarded by The Recording Academy to recognize outstanding achievement in the mainly English - language music industry . The annual presentation ceremony features performances by prominent artists , and the presentation of those awards that have a more popular interest . It shares recognition of the music industry as that of the other performance awards such as the Emmy Awards ( ___MASK67___ ), the Tony Awards ( stage performance ), and the Academy Awards ( motion pictures ). Paul Frederic Simon ( born October 13 , 1941 ) is an American ___MASK77___ , ___MASK84___ - songwriter and actor . Simon ' s fame , influence , and commercial success began as part of the duo Simon & Garfunkel , formed in 1964 with musical partner Art Garfunkel . Simon wrote nearly all of the pair ' s songs , including three that reached No . 1 on the U . S . singles charts : " The Sound of Silence ", " Mrs . Robinson ", and " Bridge over Troubled Water ". Ladysmith Black Mambazo is a South African male choral group that sings in the vocal styles of isicathamiya and mbube . They rose to worldwide prominence as a result of singing with Paul Simon on his 1986 album " Graceland ", and have won multiple awards , including four Grammy Awards . They were formed by Joseph Shabalala in 1960 and later became one of South Africa ' s most prolific recording artists , with their releases receiving gold and platinum disc honors . The group has now become a mobile academy , teaching people about South Africa and its culture . Joseph Shabalala ( born 28 August 1941 ), born Bhekizizwe Joseph Siphatimandla Mxoveni Mshengu Bigboy Shabalala , is the ___MASK13___ and musical ___MASK66___ of the South African choral group Ladysmith Black Mambazo . Nellie Shabalala ( 1953 -- May 15 , 2002 ) was the wife of Ladysmith Black Mambazo ( LBM ) leader and ___MASK13___ , Joseph Shabalala , for over thirty years . She had formed her own allied group , Women of Mambazo , in the 1970s . The group were beginning to create a name for themselves after touring with LBM in the United Kingdom in 2001 , but disbanded after Nellie Shabalala was shot and killed by a masked gunman , initially for unknown reasons , in May 2002 . South Africa , officially the Republic of South Africa ( RSA ), is the southernmost country in Africa . It is bounded on the south by of coastline of Southern Africa stretching along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans , on the north by the neighbouring countries of Namibia , Botswana and Zimbabwe , and on the east and northeast by Mozambique and Swaziland , and surrounding the kingdom of Lesotho . South Africa is the 25th - largest country in the world by land area , and with close to 56 million people , is the world ' s 24th - most populous nation . It is the southernmost country on the mainland of the Old World or the Eastern Hemisphere . It is the only country that borders both the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean . About 80 percent of South Africans are of Sub - Saharan African ancestry , divided among a variety of ethnic groups speaking different Bantu languages , nine of which have ___MASK60___ status . The remaining population consists of Africa ' s largest communities of European ( white ), Asian ( Indian ), and multiracial ( coloured ) ancestry .