Chevelle Franklyn

Twelve songs recorded in South Africa, and a room to hear them in.

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South Wind Vol. 1 album artwork featuring Chevelle Franklyn
Chevelle Franklyn
South Wind, Vol. 1 · 2024
Released
16 August 2024
Length
12 songs, 59:33
Sung in
English and Zulu
Label
Integrity Music

Wind from the south
Force 2, light breeze

The hour

Twelve songs. Fifty-nine minutes, thirty-three seconds.

The bar below is the album at true length, one block per song. Its colours run from first light to dusk, so every song gets a sky of its own. Pick one.

  1. The longest song on the album, and the first one you hear.

  2. The shortest song here, and the first the world heard. It came out on 3 April 2020 as the lead single, with a video. Press at the time reported it was written in about five minutes while she was in South Africa.

  4. The album announcement calls it a standout and one of her personal favourites.

  5. Ntokozo Mbambo is a South African gospel singer.

  7. Nathaniel Bassey is a Nigerian gospel singer and trumpeter.

  11. The album announcement lists this one as a bonus track.

  12. Two titles share the last track.

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Blown Away

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Liner notes

Who else is in the room.

Co-produced by
Nqubeko Mbatha and Mojalefa “Mjakes” Thebe, with Chevelle Franklyn1
Recorded
In South Africa
Languages
English and Zulu
Released
16 August 2024 on Integrity Music

The story

“A few days turned into a few weeks and a full-length album!”

Chevelle Franklyn, speaking in March 2020

Chevelle Franklyn went to South Africa to record two songs. That was the plan. The two songs became a full album, recorded in Johannesburg with South African musicians and collaborators, and sung in both English and Zulu.

She knew the country already. A 2007 tour there led to her 2008 album Shake It Off, which featured South African musicians. South Wind was first announced in 2020. The full album followed on 16 August 2024.

Of the music itself she told the press: “It is total worship, total exaltation, and admiration for God.”

  1. 2007First tour of South Africa. It led to Shake It Off the year after.
  2. 2020Go in Your Strength is released on 3 April, with the album announced alongside it.
  3. 2024South Wind, Vol. 1 arrives on 16 August.

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