Pops Mohamed

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Pops Mohamed (born December 10, 1949 in Benoni ; real name Ismael Mohamed-Jan ) is a South African multi-instrumentalist, jazz musician and music producer .

Live and act

Mohamed was born in Benoni, east of Johannesburg . He grew up in the Kalamazoo district , which was later evacuated and demolished as part of the apartheid policy. He was nicknamed Pops because, like Popeye, he liked to eat spinach as a child . At Dorkay House in Johannesburg he attended concerts by Abdullah Ibrahim and Kippie Moeketsi . At the age of 14 he became a member of the band The Valiants , of which he belonged until 1971. Then he had the hit I'm a Married Man with the band Children's Society . In the late 1970s he played with jazz musicians Basil Coetzee and Sipho Gumede in the band Movement in the City . From 1979 to 1984 he studied jazz at the Fuba School of Music .

From 1981 he worked as a sound engineer, from 1988 as a record producer. He became known for his diverse use of traditional and modern styles; on his 1996 album How Far Have We Come he treats the music of the San and combines it with typical South African township music such as soul , pop and kwela . Since 1986 he has been playing traditional instruments such as mouth bows , musical bows , bird whistles, didgeridoo , lamellophone and kora , which he plays as well as modern instruments ( guitar , keyboard , synthesizer ). His nickname is Minister of Music .

Mohamed produced Finding One's Self , an award-winning album by jazz pianist Moses Taiwa Molelekwa . He wrote songs like Lolly's Song and A New Hope!

Honors

The albums Kalamazoo and Sophiatown Society were nominated for the South African OKTV Award in the “Best Jazz Album” category. The album Kalamazoo 3 , which Mohamed recorded with Sipho Gumede, was nominated for the South African Music Award (SAMA) in the category Best Traditional Jazz Album , as was Ancestral Healing.

Discography

  • 1975: Black Disco (with Basil Coetzee and Sipho Gumede )
  • 1976: Night Express (with Sipho Gumede)
  • 1978: Black Disco 3 (with Sipho Gumede)
  • 1979: Black Teardrops (with Basil Coetzee, Sipho Gumede and Robbie Jansen as Movement in the City )
  • 1981: Inner City Funk (with Basil Coetzee and Sipho Gumede)
  • 1990: Kalamazoo (with Sipho Gumede and Basil Coetzee; Sun Music Company)
  • 1992: Sophiatown Society (with Morris Goldberg )
  • 1995: Ancestral Healing (Valley Music)
  • 1996: How Far Have We Come
  • 1996: Music With No Name (MELT 2000)
  • 1997: Society Vibes (with McCoy Mrubatha)
  • 1997: Timeless (with Bruce Cassidy)
  • 2000: Millennium Experience (with Zena Edwards)
  • 2000: Pops Mohamed Meets the London Sound Collective (MELT 2000)
  • 2001: Africa Meltdown
  • 2002: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
  • 2002: Kalamazoo 2 (with Sipho Gumede as Kalamazoo ; Sheer Sound)
  • 2002: Kalamazoo 3 (with Sipho Gumede as Kalamazoo ; Sheer Sound)
  • 2007: Healing Sounds of Mother Africa - An African Ambient Experience (African Cream)
  • New Crossings - Kalamazoo 4 (Sheer Sound)
  • 2008: The Fucha Rist (Kalamazoo Records)
  • Staying in Touch - Kalamazoo 5 (Kalamazoo Records)
  • 2009: African Classics (Sheer Sound)

Lexigraphic entries

  • International Who's Who in Popular Music . Routledge, London 2002, ISBN 978-1857431612 (2nd ed.)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Article on culturebase.net ( Memento from June 16, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
  2. ↑ Information on Pops Mohamed (English), accessed on January 21, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Mohamed, Pops
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ismael Mohamed-Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African musician and producer
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Benoni