Paradise in Gazankulu
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Paradise in Gazankulu is an album by Harry Belafonte
Harry Belafonte
Harold George "Harry" Belafonte, Jr. is an American singer, songwriter, actor and social activist. He was dubbed the "King of Calypso" for popularizing the Caribbean musical style with an international audience in the 1950s...

, released in 1988. As of December 2009 it is Harry Belafonte
Harry Belafonte
Harold George "Harry" Belafonte, Jr. is an American singer, songwriter, actor and social activist. He was dubbed the "King of Calypso" for popularizing the Caribbean musical style with an international audience in the 1950s...

's final studio album. The album deals with the plight of black South Africans under the Apartheid system. The album was re-released as an official mp3
MP3
MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a patented digital audio encoding format using a form of lossy data compression...

 download by amazon.co.uk, amazon.de, and amazon.fr in 2010.

Track listing

  1. "We Are the Wave" (Jake Holmes
    Jake Holmes
    Jake Holmes is an American singer-songwriter and jingle writer who began a recording career in the 1960s...

    , Richard Cummings, The Soul Brothers) – 3:32
  2. "Paradise in Gazankulu" (Holmes, Oben Ngobeni) – 4:27
  3. "Skin to Skin" (Holmes, Godfrey Nelson) – 4:25
  4. "Amandla" (Holmes, D. Zuma) – 4:05
  5. "Kwela (Listen To The Man)" (Holmes, S. M. Nkabinda) – 4:00
  6. "Monday to Monday" (Holmes, Zuma, R. Klaas) – 4:14
  7. "Global Carnival" (Holmes, Alistair Coakley) – 3:43
  8. "Capetown" (Holmes, M. Xaba, R. Bopape) – 3:58
  9. "Sisiwami (Sweet Sister)" (Holmes, The Soul Brothers) – 4:49
  10. "Move It" (Holmes, Van Van, Vusi Khumalo) – 4:57

Personnel

  • Harry Belafonte
    Harry Belafonte
    Harold George "Harry" Belafonte, Jr. is an American singer, songwriter, actor and social activist. He was dubbed the "King of Calypso" for popularizing the Caribbean musical style with an international audience in the 1950s...

     – vocals
  • Alistair Coakely – guitar
  • Jose Alves – guitar
  • "Stompie" Themba Dlzmini – guitar
  • Laurence Matshiza – guitar, background vocals
  • V. Mkhize – guitar
  • Maxwell "China" Mngadi – guitar
  • José Neto – guitar
  • Oben Ngobeni – guitar
  • Marks Makwane – guitar
  • Alex Acuña
    Alex Acuña
    Alejandro Neciosup Acuña aka Alex Acuña is a Peruvian drummer and percussionist, in the Afro-Cuban jazz style.Born in Pativilca, Peru, Acuña played in local bands from the age of ten, and moved to Lima as a teenager. At the age of eighteen he joined the band of Perez Prado, and in 1967 he moved...

     – percussion
  • Neil Clarke – percussion
  • Youssou Ndour – percussion
  • Chi Sharpe – percussion
  • Assane Thiam – percussion
  • Babakar Meaye – percussion
  • Richard Cummings – keyboards
  • Christopher Dlathu – bass
  • Bakithi Kumalo – bass
  • Denny Laloutte – bass
  • Thembile Michael Masoka – bass
  • Joseph Mokwela – bass
  • Sicelo Ndlela – bass
  • Vusi Khumalo – drums, background vocals
  • Lucky Monoma – drums
  • Bongani Nxele – drums
  • Richie Marrero – keyboards, background vocals
  • Mduduzi Mlangeni – keyboards
  • Dumisane Ngubeni – keyboards
  • Moses "Crocodile" Ngwenya – keyboards
  • Hilton Rosenthal – keyboards, guitar
  • West Nkosi – pennywhistles
  • Victor Paz – trumpet
  • Francis Bonny – trumpet
  • Wilmer Wise – trumpet
  • Lemmy "Special" Mabaso – saxophone
  • Ricky Ford – saxophone
  • Morris Goldberg
    Morris Goldberg
    Saxophonist Morris Goldberg, was born in Cape Town, South Africa and grew up in the area known as Observatory. He is recognised as one of the early pioneers of Cape Jazz, along with Dollar Brand and Chris McGregor. He left South Africa in the Apartheid years to study in New York, where he now...

     – saxophone
  • Dick Griffin – trombone
  • Carlos Ward – saxophone
  • Jennifer Warnes
    Jennifer Warnes
    Jennifer Jean Warnes is an American singer, songwriter, arranger and record producer. She is known for her interpretations of compositions written by herself and many others, as well as an extensive playlist as a vocalist on movie soundtracks.Between 1979 and 1987 Warnes surpassed Frank Sinatra as...

     – vocals on "Skin to Skin"
  • Bobby Allende – background vocals
  • Jake Holmes
    Jake Holmes
    Jake Holmes is an American singer-songwriter and jingle writer who began a recording career in the 1960s...

    – background vocals
  • Ralph Irizarry – background vocals
  • Selina Khoza – background vocals
  • Brenda Fassie – background vocals
  • Sharon Brooks – background vocals
  • John Cartwright – background vocals
  • Jean Madubane – background vocals
  • Debbie Malone – background vocals
  • Ronnie Martin – background vocals
  • David Masondo – background vocals
  • Grace Ngobeni – background vocals
  • Jane Ngobeni – background vocals
  • Marilyn Nokwe – background vocals
  • Tu Nokwe – background vocals
  • Deborah Sharpe – background vocals
  • Ty Stevens – background vocals

Production notes:
  • Hilton Rosenthal – producer, drum programming
  • Harry Belafonte – executive producer
  • Richard Cummings – arranger, conductor
  • Peter Thwaites – engineer
  • Charlie Paakkari – engineer
  • David Belafonte – engineer
  • Larry Walsh – engineer
  • Chris Rudy – engineer
  • Tom Lewis – engineer
  • Fernando Perdigao – assistant engineer
  • Bobby Summerfield – assistant engineer, drum programming, synthesizer programming
  • Scott Ansell – assistant engineer
  • Ellen Fitton – assistant engineer
  • Billy Straus – assistant engineer
  • Ben-Ben, Hahn – assistant engineer
  • Peter Doell – assistant engineer
  • Bernie Grundman – mastering
  • David Nadien – concert master
  • Chris Callis – photography
  • Suzette Abbot – photography
  • Carol Chen – design
  • Henry Marquez – art direction

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