RIP Ronnie, I still come back to this video every once in a while as it has such a special atmosphere and it's sad to read he passed away. I hope he's delighting people with his music somewhere else. 🙏🏽
You should watch also the street performers in some Southamerican countries, etc. Watch Daniel "el negro" Ferreyra from Argentina, Los hermanos Vargas from Chile, etc.
I see lots of people are confused about the gender of the guitarist likely due to the head gear. He's a man by name Ronnie Moipolai from Botswana. He learnt how to play the guitar from his late father. Sadly he lived like a pauper on the streets of the Botswana capital Gaborone playing for coins from passers by inspite of his great talent. He passed away in late 2018 at age 39. Rest in perfect peace dear Ronnie.😥😰
@@12south31 , no ! The average life expectancy for his country Botswana as at 2019 is 69.59 years which is approximately 70 years. He died at 39 years which is 31 years short of the national average. That's very bad.😥
Life is not fair. Every African you meet is practically Mozart. And some Africans will pass for 3 Mozarts. I want to be a cheerful and talented African, sit in the sun and sing amazing songs.
Without disrespecting any musician anywhere on the planet: trying to compare this performance to a Mozart shows how much you don't understand Mozart's genius.
@@matoatlantis For me, obvious, proven genius belongs to people who offer some new perspective, a new meaning. Brilliant scientists came up with something that no one could imagine. Brilliant artists created something that no one had seen before. Brilliant musicians weave amazing, previously unknown music from sounds. What did Mozart create that was so special that didn’t exist before? And Africans, over the last 100-200 years, have created everything special in music, everything new, everything previously unheard and previously non-existent. Without the Africans, we would still be listening to dull sonatas, rondos and minuets. These village African musicians are every greater Mozart than Mozart himself.
It is with the greatest sadness that I have to inform you that our beloved Botswana Folklore Guitarist Ronnie {Ronald) Moipolai has passed away untimely after a short illness. I, together with so many of his you tube fans will miss him and his songs dearly, may his soul rest in peace. Ronnie born 26-April-1979, died 21-September-2018, RIP !
Tomorrow they gon' start telling us that the greatest guitarist of all time is in America or Europe, we don't know that they're right here in some village in Africa; nobody knows them. Rest on, bruh!!
I have seen several other videos of him performing and this one is my favorite. I wish I had met this amazing talent sooner. Ronnie, please rest in peace.
It’s the bandana…it looks like a woman’s head wrap. Just like how Snoop Dogg sometimes looks like an Auntie lol, but all jokes aside this talent is PHENOMENAL!
Connect with Humanity. This was a beautiful person who made beautiful things. Remember them. Cherish what they made, because they made it with joy in their hearts.
This video has brought me so much joy and inspiration for the past 10 years. I just found out about Ronnie’s passing last year. RIP, Ronnie. You made millions of people smile.
I just found this and OMG! It's so beautiful and happy, lifting the spirit. I've listened to some African music before with similar sound but didn't know how it was achieved until now. I play a little guitar but I'd love to learn this style. It also appears to be less stressful to the fingertips and joints. I'm so glad I found this, thank you!
Ronnie - a beautiful, talented, genuine, warm hearted and free spirit. ❤❤❤ May his legacy stay forever in the culture of Botswana and in the rest of the world which appreciated and loved him. ❤❤❤
I am absolutely blown away. I have watched and seen many amazing players and nothing really compares to this. Everything about this video has a beautiful context.
Lovin' this. To everyone interested in how to play this, the tuning is open F. Pretty unusual. Tune from 6th to 1st string like this: F C F A C F, or to Open D, which is D A D F# A D and then capo 3 (so your strings don't break). The I and IV chord (F and Bb) tabbed out are 000000 and 555555, and the V7 chord (C7) is 777775. It would go up 3 frets if you have the capo on Open D of course. (I am a music theory and guitar teacher.)
Wonderful, wonderful, Bravo. You recreated a way to play you're guitar: somewhere between a drum , xylophone, slide guitar and your soul.. Thank you for playing. -B
Nossa, que besteira, faça só um comentário de elogio e deixa dessa mania de comparar posições, ela tem o dom de tocar seu violão, o milionário o dom de ser milionário para produzir,. " VIOLOES " gerar empregos, alimentos e afins . PARABENS PRA ela e para os milionários que, com certeza tem suas felicidades e tristezas, assim como ela e TDS nós .
Por favor, não é u'a mulher, é um rapaz, creio que .nesse país africano, os homens são imberbes, têm o rosto liso, vem como todo o resto do corpo, com excessão das partes pudicas e o couro cabeludo; também sou imberbe, tenho o corpo pelado, apesar de ser neto de portugueses, somente meu pai tinha barba cerrada e pelos no corpo, puxei o lado índio da família da minha mãe...
A ART , realmente não é pra todos , uns aprende a tocar pq são inteligentes tbm , mais outros traz no DNA , o que vcs acabaram de ver ,quer a prova ? , Há sim , claro , notem no sorriso , e na segurança dela em cada detalhes , escola nenhuma ensina isso , 👏👏👏👏👏👌
It is sad to know that Ronnie Moipolai is gone, still so young. Either way, your video will never be forgotten. Rest in peace my friend. É triste saber que Ronnie Moipolai já se foi, ainda tão jovem. De qualquer forma, seu vídeo nunca será esquecido. Descance em paz meu amigo. (portuguese-BRAZILIAN)
Music is universal and unique at the same time, this piece is the heart of Africa and cannot be compared to western or any other music -may he rest in peace ,too much sadness in those eye.
Now that's what we call a musician...U should've been playing this piece in a studio for the background score of a Hollywood blockbuster.. Gone too soon master.. Respect n homage from India🙏
I just learned a few seconds ago that the banjo is actually an African instrument and hearing this I can see the similiarity in how they are played and understand how the banjo is from Africa. This wpuld sound really good on the banjo I bet.
Marvelous skills ,very unique way of playing the guitar. This Batswanian lady is blessed with fantastic musical talent and would be phenom in the west with the right people around her.
@@kabb100st Thank you so much for info .In the video his facial features were so similar to that of a woman ,it wasn't until I saw other videos ,I realize he was a man .So sorry to hear of his passing .Thanks again for taken time out to let me know.Big respect and have a wonderful day .
Thank god! I'm so glad to see another player like that. I just wanted to say i'm born with a deformation of my arms so i can't hold a Ukulele like everybody. And so for me watching Ronald Moipolai and Jeff Healey i can finally smiled because i'm not the only one who can play like that! That's why i'm very Happy to see this players. It's been a longtime i try search a player who play like me.
Looks like guitars are like women. . There are many sides from which they can be appreciated, viewed as amazing and enjoyed. . Then if one knows how to touch them, they can sound awesome in infinite ways. . Praise them. 🌹🌹🌹
