# Always with Us
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{{Infobox album
| name = Always With Us
| type = Studio album
| artist = [Ladysmith Black Mambazo](/source/Ladysmith_Black_Mambazo)
| cover = Ladysmith Black Mambazo - Always With Us.jpg
| alt =
| released = {{Start date|2014|01|15}}
| recorded = 2000,10-2012 KZM Music House in Durban, Club Shmed in Missoula and East Hall in Arkansas while touring
| venue =
| studio =
| genre =
| length = {{Duration|m=35|s=0}}
| label = Ladysmith Black Mambazo
| producer = [Mitch Goldstein](/source/Mitch_Goldstein)
[Martin Walters](/source/Martin_Walters)
[Joseph Shabalala](/source/Joseph_Shabalala)
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
| prev_title = [Live: Singing For Peace Around The World](/source/Live%3A_Singing_For_Peace_Around_The_World)
| prev_year = 2013
| next_title = [Music from Inala A Zulu Ballet](/source/Music_from_Inala_A_Zulu_Ballet)
| next_year = 2014
}}
'''''Always With Us''''' is a 2014 album by the South African [isicathamiya](/source/isicathamiya) group [Ladysmith Black Mambazo](/source/Ladysmith_Black_Mambazo). The album, released on 15 January 2014, is a tribute to the life of the group's matriarch [Nellie Shabalala](/source/Nellie_Shabalala) (1953-2002), the late wife of Mambazo leader [Joseph Shabalala](/source/Joseph_Shabalala). It is also only the second album in the group's 50-year career to feature female Zulu vocalists singing alongside the male members.[{{cite news
| title = Ladysmith Black Mambazo Announces New Album
| publisher = Broadway World
| date = 15 November 2013
| url = http://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwmusic/article/Ladysmith-Black-Mambazo-Announces-New-Album-20131115
| accessdate =4 February 2014}}]
==Background==
Joseph Shabalala was married to Nellie for thirty years. During that time, Nellie became a supportive matriarch of her husband's group Ladysmith Black Mambazo.[Goldstein, Mitch (2014). In ''Always With Us'' [CD booklet]. Ladysmith Black Mambazo.] In 1976, the Shabalalas became Christians and joined the [Church of God of Prophecy](/source/Church_of_God_of_Prophecy). Nellie began singing with other female churchgoers and eventually formed her own choir, which she later named Women of Mambazo.[Shabalala, Joseph (2003). In ''Mamizolo'' [CD booklet]. Johannesburg: Gallo Record Company.]
In early 2000, Nellie and Women of Mambazo made their first studio album in a [South Africa](/source/South_Africa)n recording studio.[{{cite news
| title = Ladysmith Black Mambazo still moving forward
| publisher = The Boston Globe
| date = 30 January 2014
| url = https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/music/2014/01/30/over-years-ladysmith-black-mambazo-still-carrying-tradition-forward/uVXKhMKjnWCRnzXjB0ZQFI/story.html
| accessdate =4 February 2014}}] In 2010, the opportunity finally arose and the group decided to mix together their own voices with the unreleased recordings Nellie made with Women of Mambazo in 2000.