Pops Mohamed
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
- Information on Pops Mohamed worldmusic.nationalgeographic.com (English; archive version from 2011)
- Information on Pops Mohamed from his former record company ( Memento from June 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- Portrait of Mohamed and description of the album Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (English)
- About Pops Mohamed on Facebook with non-chronological list of albums in 2010 (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Article on culturebase.net ( Memento from June 16, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
- ↑ Information on Pops Mohamed (English), accessed on January 21, 2016
personal data | |
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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 |