Donald's Encyclopedia of Popular Music

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SOUL BROTHERS

South African 13-piece township jive band, formed by Zenzele Mehunu (bass, killed in auto crash '85), Moses Ngwenya (keyboards) and vocalist David Masondo. The band later featured a three-saxophone lineup incl. veteran Thomas Phale and had sold four million records in SA alone; most widely available were Jive Explosion, Jump And Jive and Born To Jive '97, all on Stern's Earthworks.