Microsoft Bringing South African Music To Zune Marketplace
Microsoft announced today a partnership with Gallo Music Group to bring a collection of their catalog to the Zune Marketplace. Gallo brings fifty albums reaching as far back as the 1930s, spanning decades of South African music for Zune users to discover.
Each week in May, Zune Marketplace will focus on sounds from a different era in addition to current chart-topping rock, reggae, hip-hop and pop music artists from South Africa. For four weeks, the Zune Marketplace editorial team will pair featured albums and playlists with insightful editorial content to help tell the story of this rich musical legacy, the majority of which has never been released in the United States in any format, physical or digital.
- Week one kicks off with an overview of the Gallo catalog, which spans nearly eight decades.
- Week two will feature the sounds of the 1950s through 1970s, including kwela, Zulu jive and mbaqanga, a style that melds traditional Zulu dance rhythms with classic American soul and R&B.
- Week three will focus on the sounds of South African gospel and jazz.
- Week four will highlight today’s best music from the region, including the platinum-selling and AVO Session Award-winning artist Simphiwe Dana.
[…] in yesterday’s Gallo Music announcement was the blurb at the bottom about Microsoft’s Zune Marketplace: Zune is Microsoft’s music […]
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