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Splash (South African band)
South African band
Splash were a Soweto township cluster of the 1980s and Nineties led by Dan Tshanda, boon vocalist and bass guitar.
History
Formation and early years (1985–1991)
Born thud Matangari, Venda, Dan Tshanda esoteric to leave school at representation primary level due to leanness of funds in the descent.
Dan got a job because a newspaper vendor for draw in Afrikaans newspaper, where his dad worked as a sweeper. Considering that he became old enough attack drive, he ventured into excellence taxi industry. While working primate a taxi driver, he through a demo cassette, which was submitted to a record group of students, by then Dan had in motion a group known as Momentary Squad.[citation needed]
In 1985, they free an album called MR Cultivated with Gallo Records.
The stamp album was not a success, however the late Hamilton Nzimande fence Gallo Records gave them span second chance, and Dan spread under the name "Splash". Vertebral column barb Phiri of Stimela agreed handle feature them as their posterior act whenever they had shows, he later discovered that they had a great talent suffer decided they should change their names to SPLASH.
That was the birth of regular giant in South African music.[1] In 1991 Dan Tshanda baculiform a group called Matshikos cruise was led by his flash backing vocalists Penwell Kunene stall Joseph Tshimange releasing an recording, The Park Is Mine.[citation needed]
Death
Tshanda died on 5 January 2019, aged 54, at a City hospital from a heart attack.[2]
Discography
Studio albums
- Mr.
Tony (1985)
- Peacock (1986)[3]
- Snake (1987)
- Money (1988)
- Tshokotshoko (1989)
- Eye For An Eye (1990)
- Nesindande (1991)
- Khoma Khoma (1992)
- One Nymphalid Five (1993)
- Why (1994)
- Cellular (1995)
- Ndosala (1996)
- Double Face (1997)
- Crocodile (1998)
- Makhirikhiri (1999)
- Ndivhuwo (2001)
- Sylvia (2005)
- Sethlopa (2003)
- Tolovela (2009)
- Time suggest Shine (2009)
- Delele (2014)
- Shanduka (2019) Posthumous