S. African song inspires the world to shake off COVID-19 blues
02:52, 25-Sep-2020
From Sao Paulo to Sweden, thousands of people globally, including priests, police, ministers and frontline workers, have posted clips of themselves dancing to South African house song "Jerusalema".
With confirmed global coronavirus deaths nearing a grim milestone of one million, a vaccine still some time away and lockdowns and social distancing measures to curb the pandemic's spread weighing on public life, the up-tempo gospel groove has provided a moment's relief across borders and language barriers.
Yet 150 million YouTube views later, the song's producer is still not sure why. Master KG told Reuters on Thursday he was in "disbelief".
"Early this year, around January, I thought the song had reached its peak," said Master KG, real name Kgaogelo Moagi. "And then out of nowhere the song came back."
The "nowhere" was a group of Angolan friends, who posted themselves performing a self-invented dance routine to the song. In the video, a first group demonstrates the dance to another group, who interrupt their house chores to join-in.
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