Mbongeni Ngema - Hugh Masekela ‎– Mbongeni Ngema's Sarafina!

Mbongeni Ngema - Hugh Masekela ‎– Mbongeni Ngema's Sarafina!
Label: Shanachie – Shanachie 43052
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: Canada
Released: 1988
Genre: Folk, World, & Country, Funk / Soul, Stage & Screen
Style: Soundtrack, Musical, Folk
Tracklist
A1 Sarafina
A2 All Right
A3 Killamanjaro
A4 Wawongalelane
B1 Coming Tomorrow
B2 Safa Isizwe
B3 Mama
B4 Give Us Power
Mbongeni Ngema
Profile:
South African writer, lyricist, composer and director born May 10, 1955 in Verulam, KwaZulu-Natal.
Real Name:
Hugh Ramopolo Masekela
Profile:
Hugh Masekela (born Johannesburg, April 4, 1939) is a South African flugelhorn and cornet player. In 1961, as part of the anti-apartheid campaign, he was exiled to the United States where he was befriended by Harry Belafonte. He has played primarily in jazz ensembles, with guest appearances on albums by The Byrds and Paul Simon. In 1987, he had a hit single with "Bring Him Back Home" which became an anthem for the movement to free Nelson Mandela. After apartheid ended, Masekela returned to South Africa where he now lives.Hugh Masekela was an old collaborator of Abdullah Ibrahim. He is reported to have been initially inspired in his musical growth by Trevor Huddleston, a British priest working in the South African townships who financed Masekela's first trumpet. Masekela played his way through the vibrant Sophiatown scene with The Jazz Epistles and to Britain with King Kong, to find himself in New York in the early 1960s. He had hits in the United States with the pop jazz tunes "Up, Up and Away" and the number one smash "Grazin' in the Grass".A renewed interest in his African roots led him to collaborate with West and Central African musicians, and finally to reconnect with South African players when he set up a mobile studio in Botswana, just over the South African border, in the 1980s. Here he re-absorbed and re-used mbaqanga strains, a style he has continued to use since his return to South Africa in the early 1990s.
Credits
Acoustic Guitar – George Mathiba (tracks: B3)
Arranged By [Horns] – Ray Molefe
Arranged By [Horns], Trumpet, Flugelhorn – Peter Mofolo
Backing Vocals – Congo Hadebe, Cosmas Mahlaba, Dumisani Dlamini, Khumbuzile Dlamini, Kipizane (Gadaffi) Skweyiya, Leleti Khumalo, Linda Mtolo, Lindiwe Dlamini, Mhlathi Khuzwayo, Mpumelelo Shelembe, Mubi Mofokeng, Nandi Ndlovu, Nhlanhla Ngema, Nonhlanhla Mbambo, Pat Mlaba, Thandekile (747) Ncube
Bass – S'Manga Nhlebela
Composed By, Written-By, Arranged By – Hugh Masekela (tracks: A1, A3)
Composed By, Written-by, Arranged By, Arranged By [Horns], Producer, Flugelhorn – Mbongeni Ngema (tracks: A2 to B4)
Congas – Hayward (Makhaya) Mahlangu
Drums – Bruce Mwandla
Electric Guitar – Mbogeni Ngema (tracks: B3)
Engineer – David Segal, Humphrey Mabote
Guitar – Douglas Mnisi
Lead Vocals – Baby Cele, Mbongeni Ngema (tracks: A1, A3), Ntomb'khona Dlamini, Sboniso Khumalo, Thandani Mavimbela
Organ – Master Mathiba, Eddie Mathiba
Synthesizer, Piano [Electric] – Amos (Master) Mathiba
Trumpet, Flugelhorn, Percussion [Babasa], Vibraslap, Guiro, Tambourine – Ray Molefe
Notes
Recorded at Gallo and RPM Studios, Johannesburg (P) 1988 Shanachie Records Corp.

Price: 12.- €