Lebohang Morake, the Grammy-winning South African composer who performed the iconic opening chant in "Circle of Life" at the start of Disney's "The Lion King," is suing the comedian Learnmore Jonasi ...

Lebohang Morake, the Grammy-winning South African composer who performed the iconic opening chant in “Circle of Life” at the start of Disney’s “The Lion King,” is suing the comedian Learnmore Jonasi ...

A Grammy-award winning South African composer who wrote and performed the iconic opening chant in “Circle of Life” for Disney’s “The Lion King” movies is suing a comedian for allegedly damaging his ...

Zimbabwean comedian Learnmore Jonasi faces a lawsuit for $27 million after making a joke about the lyrics to the opening song of the Disney film "The Lion King." While appearing on the One54 Africa ...

The “Circle of Life” chant is one of the most recognizable sounds in Disney movie history! But right now, it’s the center of a $27 million legal war. For over thirty years, those first few seconds of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gregg DeGuire/Penske Media via Getty Images Lebo M, composer of The Lion King signature, “Circle of Life” is suing an Internet ...

Circle of Life became one of the most iconic songs in cinema after being used as the opening track of the 1994 film The Lion King. However, very few people knew what the beginning of the song’s lyrics ...

Claws are out over these “Lion King” lyrics! The Grammy-winning South American vocalist who sang the famous opening chant in the song “Circle of Life” at the beginning of the Disney movie is suing a ...

FILE - Lebohang "Lebo M" Morake arrives for the official opening of the local production of the Lion King in Johannesburg on June 6, 2007. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell, File) (Denis Farrell, AP2007) A ...

A South African comedian is being sued for $27 million over a viral joke that mistranslated the iconic "Circle of Life" chant in Disney's "The Lion King." Lebohang Morake — the Grammy-winning South ...