He wore makeup, teased his hair a foot high. Visit our Special Tribute Package for More on Little Richard’s Music and InfluenceĪnd in return, he became everything, an omnibeing who contained multitudes, whose art refracted, critiqued, and remade American identity, drawing its explosive charge from multiple consciousnesses: male, female white, black straight, gay the pleasures of the flesh and the word of God. “The kids would call me faggot, sissy, freak, punk. They thought I was trying to twist and walk feminine,” he told Charles White in The Life and Times of Little Richard: The Quasar of Rock, an authorized biography. He was different, born that way: His right leg was shorter than the left. It was a sign from the start that he was no one thing, had no one identity. His parents wanted to call him Ricardo, but the birth certificate said Richard, his maternal grandfather’s name.
This is the best I could come up with.He was born the third of 12 children in Macon, Georgia, on December 5th, 1932, though he sometimes said it was December 25th, perhaps to honor Christ his savior, perhaps to burnish his own legend, or more likely both. I think most of us who like this song would LOVE it if someone who actually spoke a Bantu language to transcribe and translate this song. This is what we have to do with our friends Obuobu swemeswelalele le ngezanghithe twabano and I'm giving a rough translation thanks to Google Translate. I only have a Zulu dictionary, so this is just a shot in the dark here, but this sounds like what they are singing. I believe this is Xhosa, which is a Bantu language similar to Zulu and Swahili.
but, I started learning Zulu after a trip to South Africa a few years back. I do speak 11 languages, none are of the Niger-Congo language family or Bantu language group.
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