Helele

	Chart positions ; Explanation of the data
	Singles
	AIE (Mwana) ( Black Blood )
	Helele ( Velile & Safri Duo )

Velile (2010)

Helele is a chart hit by the South African singer Velile Mchunu together with the Safri Duo , which was successful in the 2010 soccer World Cup .

history

In the early 1970s, the French Daniel Vangarde (actually Daniel Bangalter) and the Belgian Jean Kluger released a joint concept album called Le monde fabuleux des Yamasuki . The album contained Japanese- sounding music with Japanese-sounding pseudo-texts. As Yamasuki’s (an artificial word made up of Yamaha and Suzuki ), they published the piece AIEAOA across Europe in 1971 .

Four years later the song was provided by the Belgian band Black Blood , whose producer was Jean Kluger, with a text in a Swahili dialect and released as a single under the title AIE (Mwana) . The song became an international disco hit and reached number 24 in the German charts in 1975.

In the early 80s, the girl band Bananarama took the song for a demo single and had their first hit. In the USA they were placed at number 66 on the dance charts with Aie a mwana in 1981.

In the 80s also took Ottawan (in English as AIE Is My Song , 1982) and La Compagnie Créole ( "AIE A Moun'la", 1987), both produced by Vangarde and Kluger, the song on. After that, the song became quieter, apart from a re-recording of Black Blood in 1999, which still attracted attention.

Helele

In the run-up to the 2010 Soccer World Cup in South Africa , the South African Velile Mchunu , who had become known as a musical performer in The Lion King in Germany , remembered this song again with her production team Elephant Music and her record company Universal Music . They were able to win over the two percussionists of the Safri Duo for the rhythmic background . The two Danes became known in 2000 with Played-A-Live (The Bongo Song) , which was performed at the opening of the Summer Olympics that year. Velile wrote a new text in her mother tongue isiZulu and so Helele was born . Both RTL and Swiss television used the song to accompany their World Cup coverage. In Switzerland, Helele reached number 1 in the charts during the World Cup , in Germany it came to number two. Helele was awarded gold in Switzerland and platinum in Germany .