Tonight with Tim Modise | Ringo Madlingozi

Ringo Madlingozi is a Cape Town-born South African singer, producer and songwriter who rose to fame when he and his band Peto won the Shell Road to Fame contest in 1986.
He later formed a group called Gecko Moon with Alan Cameron, a fellow Peto member. Their popular hit was Green-Green, which was a crossover track and was well received by music lovers.
Since his debut solo album, Vukani, which sold tens of thousands of copies, he has been unstoppable and moving up the music ladder.
He has subsequently scooped multiple awards for his albums, the South African Music Awards (SAMA) and the Kora All African Music Awards, where, among others, he won the Best Male Artist in Southern Africa and the African continent Awards.
He collaborated with international acclaimed group UB40 as part of the United Nations global AIDS awareness program, recording the Xhosa lyrics of Cover Up. Brian Travers, UB40's saxophonist, describes Ringo's music as "fantastic".
In May 2003, Ringo Live was recorded at the State Theatre in Pretoria and released in both DVD and CD format in August of the same year. The Ringo Live CD has sold an excess of 150,000 units, reaching multi-platinum status with the DVD selling over 60,000 units.
The DVD was in the top five national charts and top 10 international charts due to its excellent production quality.
In 2004 Ringo released an album titled Baleka which has thus far sold over 75,000 units and continues to sell. On that album he worked with Dillon O'Bryan, the composer of the song Soul to Soul by The Temptations and Bob Thiele Jnr.
Love Songs, a compilation, was released on 14 February 2006 sold over 25,000 copies within the first month of its release.
On the local front he has produced the world renowned artist Miriam "Mama Africa" Makeba and Durban Gospel greats Avante. Mama Africa's CD was nominated and received a number of local and international awards.
Due to popular demand of the Ringo Live DVD and CD, Ringo recorded a sequel, which is the Ringo Live2 recording in the same format of DVD and CD in September 2006.
In it he features Mama Busi Mhlongo; popstar Thembisile Ntaka; rap's gentle giant, Hip-Hop Pantsula and locally unknown, but internationally acclaimed Xhosa Spiritual Traditional artist, Ncumisa Bhonga.
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