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Solomon Popoli Linda (1909 – 8 October 1962), also known as Solomon Ntsele ("Linda" was his clan name),〔Gilmore, Inigo, ("Penniless sisters fight record industry over father's hit song" ), ''The Telegraph'' (UK), 11 June 2000.〕 was a South African Zulu musician, singer and 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 cappella'' popularized later by Ladysmith Black Mambazo. == Early years == Solomon Popoli Linda was born near Pomeroy, on the labor reserve Msinga, Umzinyathi District Municipality in Ladysmith in Natal, where he was familiar with the traditions of ''amahubo'' and ''izingoma zomshado'' (wedding songs) music.〔〔Frith, Simon, (''Popular Music: critical concepts in media and cultural studies, Volume 4'' ), London: Routledge, 2004. ISBN 978-0-415-33270-5. (p. 271 )〕〔Erlmann, Veit, ''Music, Modernity, and the Global Imagination: South Africa and the West'', New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.〕 He attended the Gordon Memorial mission school, where he learned about Western musical culture, hymns, and participated in choir contests.〔〔 Influenced by the new syncopated music that had been introduced into South Africa from the US during the 1880s, he included it in the Zulu songs he and his friends sang at weddings and feasts.〔Malan, Rian, ("In the Jungle" ), ''Rolling Stone'', 25 May 2000. Retrieved 2007-06-19. (ColdType Press, September 2003. )〕 In 1931, Linda, like many other young African men at that time, left his homestead to find menial work in Johannesburg, by then a sprawling gold-mining town with a great demand for cheap labour. He worked in the Mayi Mayi Furniture Shop on Small Street and sang in a choir known as the Evening Birds, managed by his uncles, Solomon and Amon Madondo, and which disbanded in 1933.〔Erlmann, Veit, ("Imbube: The Career of Solomon Linda" ), in ''African Stars: studies in Black South African performance'', University of Chicago Press, 1991, pp. 165-67. ISBN 0-226-21722-1.〕 Linda found employment at Johannesburg's Carlton Hotel and started a new group that retained the Evening Birds name. The members of the group were Solomon Linda (soprano), Gilbert Madondo (alto), Boy Sibiya (tenor), with Gideon Mkhize, Samuel Mlangeni, and Owen Sikhakhane as basses. They were all Linda's friends from Pomeroy.〔〔〔 The group evolved from performances at weddings to choir competitions. Linda's musical popularity grew with the Evening Birds, who presented "a very cool urban act that wears pinstriped suits, bowler hats and dandy two-tone shoes".〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Solomon Linda」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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