My Second Stop : Soccer City Stadium , Johannesburg, South Africa"

'My Second Stop : Soccer City Stadium , Johannesburg, South Africa"? You may be wondering why I have chosen to go there even though my project is on music. Well here (connection from Hawaii and further explanation in map)is where the Fifa world cup was held and for that event has produced many popular songs that captures the essence of the people, the occasion and the soccer.

Johannesburg is the largest cities in Africa, in relation to population as it has 3,888,180 people living in it (estimated). The weather here is subtropical, this means it has dry sunny climate with thundershowers in the afternoons of the summer months. It reaches 26.6 C in January but can drop to 16C in June. It surprised me to find out that Johannesburg has over 10 million trees! it has the biggest man-made forests in the world. As a result lots of deforestation (destruction/cutting down of trees) occurs there!

The stadium itself is located next to the South African Football Association. It can hold a capacity of 94,700 people! But when the World Cup was held there many seats were reserved so it only held 84,490. The stadium has the nickname of 'The Clalbash' as it looks like and African pot!

The arena also holds many concerts, with bands like U2 played there as part of their U2 360 Tour. The Kings of Leon (another of my favorite bands) are set to play there fir the first time in October. And in the stadium during the kick off of the World Cup Sharkia performed the song 'Waka Waka', which was one of the official songs for the world cup :)

Click here to see the performance! I believe this song really captures the essence of afician music and also modern music!