This Heritage Month we celebrate the Legacy of Solomon Linda and South Africa’s Indigenous Music Solomon Linda is best known as the composer of the song “Mbube” which later became the popular music success “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” and gave its name to the Mbube style of isicathamiya a Capella music. “Solomon Linda is one of the pioneers of indigenous music called isicathamiya...Baba uLinda and those who came after him showed us that if we are ourselves the world applaud us...” - Minister Nathi

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"LION SLEEPS TONIGHT" Our modern day version of “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” takes its roots from South Africa. The earliest versions of the song have been handed down from generation to generation. Solomon Linda took the song, “Mbube” which means lion, and recorded his version in 1939. This South African release was highly successful as over time the record sold over one hundred thousand copies. It made it’s way to the US and revisions soon followed, most notably the translation and addition of En

THE LION SLEEPS TONIGHT - THE TOKENS Canción de 1961 del grupo estadounidense The Tokens. Escrita y grabada originalmente en 1939 por el sudafricano Solomon Linda en lengua Zulú y con el título Mbube ( León ). Hugo Peretti, Luigi Creatore y George David Weiss adaptaron la letra al inglés. Esta versión fue lanzada como sencillo junto al tema Tina e incluida en el álbum The Lion Sleeps Tonight. Llegó al número 1 en Estados Unidos. | The songs of my life