Letta Mbulu – There’s Music In The Air – LP

Letta Mbulu was lucky when she emigrated from South Africa, where blacks were troubled and ridiculed by the Apartheid system. She was lucky to rescue a recording deal with A&M Records, and even the label’s founder, Herb Albert, produced the record, Johnny Mandel did the orchestrations, and Quincy Jones wrote the liner notes. However, it wasn’t only luck – Letta Mbulu‘s talents as a singer are such that they couldn’t be overheard. Her husband, Caiphus Semenya, also from South Africa and a musician, helped her throughout. 

“There’s Music In The Air“, from 1976, features songs varying in tempos and moods and languages, and there’s a mellow aura of purity and peace, almost innocence, that captures the listener.

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