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Gallo Record Company is the largest record label in Africa. It is based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) is one of the four major record labels. ...
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The company owns over 75% of all recordings ever made in South Africa [1], including those by artists such as Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Mahlathini and the Mahotella Queens, Miriam Makeba, Hugh Masekela, Stimela, West Nkosi, and Makgona Tsohle Band among others. Ladysmith Black Mambazo is a chorus from South Africa that is noted for singing a cappella isicathamiya and mbube music. ...
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Hugh Masekela (born Johannesburg, April 4, 1939) is a South African flugelhorn and cornet player. ...
The Makgona Tsohle Band was an instrumental band that performed in the South African style of mbaqanga. ...
Arnold Golembo founded the Gramophone Record Company (GRC) in Johannesburg in 1939. GRC obtained the South African franchise for Capitol Records label in 1946 but soon obtained the franchise for CBS in 1956. Johannesburgs skyline as seen from the observation deck of the Carlton Centre. ...
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GRC was incorporated into the Gallo Group, founded as Gallotone Recordings in 1926 by Eric Gallo. The new company was named Gallo-GRC, thus ending the several Gallo Group sub-labels (such as Motella, Ezomdabu, Mavuthela and Gumba Gumba). The company was renamed Gallo Record Company in 1989, the 50th anniversary of the company.
Producers at the record company included West Nkosi, who was an influential and intimidating figure at the company from 1964 until his death in 1997. Nkosi was a member of the Makgona Tsohle Band, which backed up various Gallo artists such as Abafana Baseqhudeni and Mahlathini as well as female groups such as Mahotella Queens and Dark City Sisters. Nkosi set-up the Gallo sub-label Mavuthela Productions in 1970, which controlled smaller Gallo labels such as Motella and Ezomdabu. Nkosi introduced to Gallo some of its most well-known artists; these included Ladysmith Black Mambazo and Mphranyana and the Cannibals. The Makgona Tsohle Band was an instrumental band that performed in the South African style of mbaqanga. ...
Simon ‘Mahlathini’ Nkabinde (born in 1937 in Natal, South Africa) — (died July 27, 1999), Johannesburg, South Africa was a South African mbaqanga singer. ...
The very first line-up of the Mahotella Queens began recording for Gallo Africa in 1964 with their long-standing musical partner, Simon ‘Mahlathini’ Nkabinde, the ‘lion of Soweto’. The Queens members were studio singers before 1963, with many (including resident lead singer Hilda Tloubatla) having recorded backing tracks for...
Ladysmith Black Mambazo is a chorus from South Africa that is noted for singing a cappella isicathamiya and mbube music. ...
Other figures at Gallo included talent scout Robert Bopape, and musicians Shadrack Piliso and Marks Mankwane.
In 2006, Johnnic Communications (the parent company of Gallo Africa Ltd.) was incorporated into Warner Music Group, forming Warner Music Gallo Africa, making Gallo's entire archive digitally available for the first time.
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External links - Gallo Record Company official site
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