Since South Africa was still a British Colony, British laws said that the rights should have reverted to Solomon’s heirs 25 years after his death in 1962. Solomon improvised “Mbube” and shortly after he recorded the song, he sold the rights to the Gallo Record Company for less than two dollars. Solomon Improvises "Mbube" in the Recording StudioĪ talent scout discovered Solomon Linda and the Evening Birds in 1938, and the group recorded several songs in Eric Gallo’s recording studios, at that time the only recording studio in Sub-Saharan Africa.
They performed at weddings and choir competitions, growing into a popular urban act. Solomon worked in his uncle’s furniture store and eventually he started a vocal group called Solomon Linda and the Evening Birds. In the mid 1930s, Solomon moved to Johannesburg, at that time a city of gold mines that required a steady supply of laborers. Popular African American vocalist Orpheus McAdoo and his group, The Virginia Jubilee Singers, performed at Gordon Memorial School and inspired Solomon to incorporate the exciting new music into the Zulu songs that he and his friends sang at weddings and feasts. While he was at school, ragtime, a new kind of American syncopated music introduced by African American composer Scott Joplin that had been popular since the 1880s, swept across South Africa. Solomon Linda Starts Solomon Linda and the Evening Birdsīorn in the Msinga rural area of Zululand, Solomon received his schooling at the Gordon Memorial Mission School in the South African village of Msinga. Solomon ‘s creative imagination combined a Zulu refrain that sounded like “wimoweh” to English speaking ears, with his own boyhood experiences chasing away lions that stalked the family cattle. Solomon Linda’s song, T he Lion Sleeps Tonight, transcends racial, cultural, and time lines Solomon Linda's song eventually earned millions of dollars, but he died in such poverty that it took his family 18 years to buy a tombstone for his grave.Like most sagas, the story of Solomon Popoli Linda and his most famous song, “Mbube,” which means lion, and ultimately became “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” has many twists and turns.
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