Artist
Prince Nico Mbarga
Prince Nico Mbarga appears 3 times in our Highlife, 1976, and Sung to Someone lists, placing as high as No. 3. Hand-curated, with a reason for every pick.
- Ranked entries
- 3
- Appears on
- Highlife, 1976, and Sung to Someone
- Year
- 1976
- Highest placing
- No. 3 in Highlife
- Updated
- 2026-08-30
Appears on
Sweet Mother
1976 · Rogers All Stars
Ranked No. 3 in Highlife
Reckoned to be the best-selling African single ever made. A pidgin-English song about a mother's love over a guitar line of total sweetness, and utterly unembarrassed by any of it.
Also on 1976, Sung to Someone
Sweet Mother
1976 · Rogers All Stars
Picked by 1976
Reportedly the biggest-selling African record ever made, in a year when the British charts had no idea it existed. Highlife at its most untroubled, and the exact opposite of the entry above from the same country in the same twelve months.
Also on Highlife, Sung to Someone
Sweet Mother
1976 · Rogers All Stars
Picked by Sung to Someone
The criterion says one person addressing another. It does not say the other has to be a lover. One of the biggest-selling records ever made in Africa, and it is a grown man thanking his mother, directly, for the nights she did not sleep.