Mar
08
2011

Gospel Music in Jo'Burg

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'We're fans and we fell in love with the sound you make so tonight we're going to open the show with one of your pieces.'

The Soweto Gospel Choir were at Soccer Stadium in Jo'Burg last month to greet the band ahead of the first date of 2011.

Last year the double-Grammy winning Choir recorded several U2 tracks including 'Where The Streets Have No Name', which opens 'U2 Duals'.

And it was their own version of 'Get On Your Boots' that was playing as the band arrived on stage.
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18  Comments
RICOVANSAN - 24 March, 2011
Brazil countdown
My wife and I wiil be there! I want to feel the same emotion I felt in Vertigo tour!
danielgonzaga - 20 March, 2011
See you in Brazil
Nice.... I Wait you in Brazil, show 360 live .... 13 April... YEEEAHHHH Tah Chegando....
Yogic - 18 March, 2011
Energetic
Love their sweet energetic vibration... : ).
ArgentoRJ - 17 March, 2011
OMG
Just wish I were one of those people!
panchosao - 16 March, 2011
brazil we are LONG TIME NO SEA
MY NAME IS PANCHO AND WE ARE WAITING TO SEE YOU NO BRASIL AMAMOS VOCES
COLMAC03 - 16 March, 2011
Amazing Grace/Streets
It would have been so amazing (maybe obvious/serendipitous?) if the Soweto Choir could have performed in Soweto with the Band rather than Hugh M (I know you cant please everyone). Mildly disappointed but show remained awesome!
mich40 - 10 March, 2011
Soweto Gospel Choir
All of their remixes are amazing. Those are the songs that I am most looking forward to on the Duals CD. Wish the Get on your Boots was on there. Also love the opening of the show in South Africa. Hope that sticks around for the US leg.
terrybf - 10 March, 2011
Amazing Africa
I was there, seeing this brings back amazing memories ... U2, you guys are an inspiration ... Just awarded my first educational bursary, so much more to do in Africa ...
PRB216 - 09 March, 2011
Couldn't stop smiling
This is why I subscribe to you guys!! This video was awesome :) I love seeing the band from a different light and this unique view was really awesome.
dereski - 09 March, 2011
WoW
Thank you for posting this video. the video its self was amazing and the Soweto Gospel choir was amazing to listen too.
musicabona - 08 March, 2011
Sunlight on their faces
This great choir puts a lot of soul in the music and all the incredible voices add some new colours to well-known songs like "Where The Streets Have No Name". Watching the singers rehearse and clap their hands I can see and feel that they truly rejoice in music. I love their creativity to make their own versions of some U2 tracks.
liston7 - 08 March, 2011
Wow
The choir is amazing! Would love to see them on stage with the band...would be even more powerful.
carriemunky - 08 March, 2011
Simply beautiful
Awesome choir. I could get into them. So cool that the lads used it as there intro. Looks like they all had a good time (and that was just the start of the concert). Be good to hear more from them.
roemer - 08 March, 2011
great
What a Feeling
tan_lejos_tan_cerca - 08 March, 2011
The future needs a big kisss!!
Great and very nice video!! Amazing beautiful voices!! Congrats to the choir. I love when they are dancing in the stadium hearing their version of Get On Your Boots :)
All I Want Is You 2 - 08 March, 2011
Gospel Music in Jo'burg
It gave ME the chills! I love when music does that to ME. :~)
gloRIA1 - 08 March, 2011
Amazing
Amazing choir. Saw them live in Rotterdam last November. I'd hoped to see them on stage with U2 but unfortuantely that did not happen.
chedu - 08 March, 2011
STREETS HAVE NO NAME
Beautiful !!!.....from Argentina!!
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