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The couple team Marais and Miranda popularized traditional South African folk music in america through the ’40s, ’50s, and ’60s. The duo charmed radio and concert hall viewers with relatively Americanized variations (a lot of the amounts were British adaptations, though they do occasionally sing in Afrikaans) of the initial …

A local white South African of Western european descent, Josef Marais was one of the primary singers from that nation to get an audience within the post-World Battle II USA, principally in colaboration with his wife Miranda. Delivered in the Karoo Plateau, he grew up on the sheep ranch — …