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Ray Phiri
Ray Phiri is credited on 257 releases across 51 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1974–2023 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
257
Pressings credited
51
Albums
6
Decades active
295
In collections
Biography
Raymond Chikapa Enock Phiri (23 March 1947 – 12 July 2017) was a South African jazz, fusion and mbaqanga musician born in Mpumalanga to Thabethe Phiri, a Malawian immigrant worker, and South African guitarist nicknamed "Just Now" Phiri. He was a founding member of the Cannibals in the 1970s. When the Cannibals disbanded Ray founded Stimela, with whom he conceived gold and platinum-selling albums like Fire, Passion and Ecstacy (1984), Look, Listen and Decide (1986). He collaborated with Paul Simon and Ladysmith Black Mambazo on Simon's Graceland (1986) album.
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Credited work
257 releases · 51 albums · active 1974–2023
- Performance · 442
- Production · 60
- Other credits · 15
Studios: The Hit Factory · RPM Studios, Johannesburg, South Africa · Central Park, New York · Ovation Studios
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Graceland
1986
The Rhythm Of The Saints
1990
Negotiations And Love Songs (1971-1986)
1988
Across The Borderline
1993
The Essential Paul Simon
2007
Paul Simon's Concert In The Park
1991
Strange Angels
1989
Wakafrika
1994
The Unplugged Collection: Volume One
1994
Fire, Passion, Ecstasy
1984
Talk Normal: The Laurie Anderson Anthology
2000
Greatest Hits - Shining Like A National Guitar
2000
Stimela Live
1988
The Complete Albums Collection
2012
Frequent collaborators
- Stimela
- Various
- Paul Simon
- Laurie Anderson
- Mpharanyana
- Manu Dibango
- Ladysmith Black Mambazo
- Steve Kekana
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