Kama kawaida your white gods stole even music. Original Evening Birds acapella group with lead singer Solomon Linda did the rendition “Mbube”(lion) pale 1939 ,it became the first African record to sell over 100,000 copies. In the ‘40s, the song’s popularity spread through Europe. Though record companies in the U.S. weren’t interested, yeah right.Songwriter Pete Seeger, Delighted by the joyous bonobo jungle boogie call of what he heard as “Wimoweh,” A Top 20 hit, the writing credit went to“Paul Campbell,” a pseudonym for a group,Gordon Jenkins Orchestra who did the original “wimoweh” . There was no mention of Solomon Linda,poor fellow received 10 shillings akanunue mahindi akienda mtaani—roughly 87 cents today—for signing over the copyright of “Mbube” to Gallo Studios SA, the company that produced his group’s original record. As compensation, they also gave him a job sweeping floors and serving tea in their packing house.Atleast alikua na ka job hakutoka mkono mtupu
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Solomon Linda ,far left
kusoma vyovyote vile ni muhimu,when Solomon Linda wrote a song about lions preying on cattle, he could never have imagined ile swara alijiletea , he was inviting a much more savage breed of predator into his own life.