Memeza | |
Type: | studio |
Artist: | Brenda Fassie |
Cover: | Memeza.jpg |
Released: | 1997 |
Recorded: | 1997 |
Length: | 36:47 |
Label: | CCP Records |
Prev Title: | Now Is the Time |
Prev Year: | 1996 |
Next Title: | Paparazzi |
Next Year: | 1997 |
Memeza is an album recorded by Brenda Fassie and Sello Chicco Twala in 1997. The album was released on 3 November 1997, the same day as Brenda's birthday. It was the best selling album in South Africa in 1997. The album went Platinum on the day of its release & sold over 100 000 in a week of its release. The album went to sell 700,000 copies in South Africa.[1]
Memeza was released in 1997 by CCP Records in its physical form. EMI Digital re-released the album in its digital form in 2004.[2] The music is characterised as largely pop/rock and Kwaito (a South African urban music style).[2] [3] Its themes range from tradition to marriage.[3] Sello Twala and Brenda Fassie co-wrote all the songs for the album and Twala handled the production thereof.