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Relish
12+ albums
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RELISH from N. Ireland have sold platinum albums, have won prestigious music awards, have written global hits, graced some of the world's most famous stages and have fans stretching from Paul Weller to Brian May, to U2 and more and are virtually unknown beyond Ireland. Relish comprise of brothers, Ken and Carl Papenfus and Darren Campbell who hail from the picturesque County Down, N. Ireland. The Papenfus brothers are sons of South African jazz singer Jane Londis of Golden City Dixies fame as well as subsequent solo releases on the EMI label. Jane was winner of the prestigious Miss Entertainment award in 1969 and performed and translated into her native Xhosa what has been voted as South Africa’s most popular indigenous song “Master Jack”. Their Father who later became a doctor of psychology and author featured as percussionist on the Kwella Kids releases, having built up a reputation for being the white guy who could out play the black guys. Of mixed race with black African mother and white African father, home would become Belfast for the exiled couple and son who had fled South Africa's race laws that deemed interracial marriage illegal. The most prized possession for the couple was their extensive record collection of music that stretched from Ray Charles and Charlie Mingus to The Beatles and Joni Mitchell, to world and roots music and beyond. This musical palette was to inspire the young boys to venture into the world of music and to embrace without prejudice all t
