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South African Afropop band

This article is about the band. For Their self-titled album, see Mango Groove (album).

Mango Groove is an 11-piece South African Afropopband whose music fuses pop and township music—especially marabi and kwela.

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Since their foundation in 1984, the band has released six studio albums and numerous singles. Their most recent album, 2016's Faces to the Sun, was more than four years in the making.^[1]

History

Formation

Mango Groove was formed in Johannesburg in 1984.^[2] Three of the four founding members—John Leyden, Andy Craggs, and Bertrand Mouton—were bandmates in a "white middle-class punk band" called Pett Frog, while they were students at the University of the Witwatersrand.

In 1984 the three young men met kwela musician "Big Voice" Jack Lerole at the Gallo Records building in Johannesburg. In the late 1950s, Lerole had led a kwela band called Elias and His Zig-Zag Jive Flutes. John Leyden was enamoured wit