Mbube – the vocal harmony song that ended up on The Lion King soundtrack – made its writer $2. But beyond the exploitation and legal battles lies a more inspiring story
, or “night music”, a domestic musical style that was heavily affected by colonial influences: missionaries and white singing troupes are credited as the first to introduce four-part vocal harmony on the continent. Religious schools that conscripted Black South Africans frequently trained students to sing American spirituals in English.
After a brief, swooning introduction, Linda and his bandmates lock into the main groove of Mbube. Though some say the song was improvised, there’s an intricate precision to the harmonies. Mbube is sung in Zulu and full of vocal lines meant to evoke the penny whistles rooted deeply in South African street music, yet its compositional structure bears a strong western influence. It’s that combination that gave Mbube a shot globally.
US music historian and archivist Rob Allingham frequently works with Gallo Records. “The amount of material that was recorded was not only incredibly diverse, but it was vast in quantity,” he says.
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