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A salute to the comrades of music and struggle
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It is now 40 years since Hazel Miller and her husband, the great Johannesburg-born bassist Harry Miller, founded Ogun Records.
Hazel says that the Ogun label was necessary “to get this music out there,” to enable listeners everywhere to hear this South African sound that was so central to the people’s struggles against apartheid and the creation of a new South Africa.
“None of the big commercial labels were interested,” she says. “We needed Ogun so much to keep alive the sounds of our friends in exile from South Africa and their friends over here.
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