Ron “Bones” Brettell (Africa Calling, Shadows of Africa, Sport Africa and Visions Africa) 
The driving force behind Mathambo Music is perhaps best known for his keyboard playing and recordings with the predominately girl group “Clout” that had the international smash hits “Substitute”, “Save Me” and “Under Fire” climbing to the top of the charts all over the world in the late ‘70’s. Turning his attention to African styled music composition and production, Ron has 14 gold records to his credit as a music producer for South African artists such as Rebecca Malope, P.J. Powers and Hotline, while also producing hundreds of advertising jingles and TV themes. Along with the late great Dave Pollecutt, he co-produced and engineered the music soundtrack of the acclaimed international hit dance musical African Footprint, which has also achieved gold status in South Africa.

Zamo Mbutho (Zulu Roots and Visions Africa)
A composer, singer and music producer, Zamo has featured in studio sessions with Brenda Fassie, Letta Mbulu, Simply Red and Mbongeni Ngema. He has also performed live with Jon Secada in South Africa and been a regular member in the legendary Miriam Makeba’s backing group, which has toured many countries around the world.

William Haubrich (Reflections of Africa)
Born in San Diego, California in 1960, composer, arranger, trombonist William Haubrich joined the Cape Town Symphony in 1982 and was soon ensconced into the local jazz and African music scene.  He has arranged and composed for symphony orchestra,  jazz ensemble, theatre, choirs, African groups and has been instrumental in combining Western and African music and musicians in Southern Africa.  Regularly commissioned from Europe, Africa and the U.S., Haubrich's evocative and diverse works are used internationally in television, film and recordings.

Jaco Maria Ngoka (African Impressions series)
started singing in school choirs when he was sixteen and was part of a family band at age seventeen and began singing and playing guitar at night clubs. While working in Swaziland, Jaco performed with Pacific Express that featured the well known South African musician, Robby Jansen. In 1985 in Johannesburg he worked with some of South Africa’s greatest; Miriam Makeba, Jimmy Dludlu, Alou April, Judith Sephuma and many others. He currently sings with the South African band called “Loading Zone” with two CD releases to their credit, while doing a lot of recording sessions in and around Capetown. Jaco’s first solo CD release is entitled “Life Again” with contributions from Ian Smith, Buddy Wells, Lucas Khumalo, Peter Ndala, John Hassau, Jimmy Dludlu, Judith Sephuma, and Nhlanhla Magagula.

Jerry Barnard (African Impressions series and African Wildlife)
was born in Essex, England and moved to then Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe at the age of seven.
On completing school he attended the Rhodesian College of Music. He built his first recording studio and became actively involved in the local recording scene. Around the same time he joined his first rock band. The entire band later emigrated to Australia and changed their name to “Holy Black” which featured the powerful vocalist Una Vali. Returning to South Africa some years later on a tour with Albert Hammond, this ultimately led to the creation of B&S Studios in Capetown which is still going strong today. When not concentrating on library mood music, Jerry produces, composes and engineers jingles and soundtracks for the advertising industry, having achieved an impressive wall of awards for his efforts.

Ryan Grogan (African Impressions series)
has a masters degree in music composition and arrangement from the University of Capetown South Africa. He has also studied at Berklee College in Boston USA. Ryan is a pianist and keyboard player who has performed with acclaimed South African artists Jimmy Dludlu and Judith Sephuma. Between regular gigs with his own jazz trio, he composes music for film and TV. This includes numerous high profile documentaries and commercials, for one of which he received a “Dogstar” award in 2004 for the best music for a South African TV ad.

Godfrey Mgcina (Rhythm Africa)
South Africa’s most sought after percussionist and drummer, Godfrey began his career with Moses Ngwenya of the legendary South African group Soul Brothers. His credits include playing drums on Clarence Carter’s album “Live in Johannesburg” and Shirley Brown of “Woman to Woman” fame. He has also played live and worked in recording sessions with P J Powers, Bayete, Hugh Masekela, Caiphus Semenya, Letta Mbulu, Johnny Clegg, Lucky Dube and Snoop Doggidog. Godfrey travels the world regularly as a session musician, and is renowned for his experience and understanding of African rhythms.

Roy Schoombie (Rhythm Africa)
An adventurer and explorer of the African continent and its musical roots, Roy is also an accomplished drummer with unique expertise in the development and fusion of both ancient and modern African rhythms in a journey of percussive self-discovery called “Drumthology”. He has played drums with among many others, Garnett Brown of the Billy Cobham band, Bob Zotolla of the Chick Corea band, and Alex Foster of the Jaco Pastorius band.

Star Mabaso (Africa Calling)
was the African voices coordinator and cultural advisor for KPM’s “Colors of Africa” mood CD.
She is a well known Johannesburg session singer and co-composer on literally hundreds of South African jingles. Star has a wealth of African melodic and rhythmic ideas ready to deliver at the drop of a hat.

Bernie Millar (Africa Calling and Visions Africa)
was the music director for the “All Africa Games 1999”, a stadium show with a cast of thousands.
He has composed several hit songs including a number one chart-topper in the South African market. Bernie has written both advertising copy and music for dozens of TV and radio commercials,
and devised and scripted several “live” corporate musicals. 
 
Bongani Masuku and Sipho Nxumalo (Shadows of Africa and Visions Africa)
These in-demand Johannesburg session singers have turned their considerable talents to music composition for the Mathambo Music catalogue. They have regularly performed live with Johnny Clegg and been important components in recording sessions for the internationally renowned Quincy Jones and Simply Red, as well as with famous South Africans, (to mention only a few) Hugh Masekhela, Caiphus Semenya, Miriam Makeba and Abdullah Ibrahim. Sipho and Bongani were key vocal components in the Johannesburg recordings of Disney’s The Lion King original soundtrack. They also performed live at the original Nelson Mandela’s 46664 concert held in Cape Town, South Africa.

Sven Larsen (An African Journey and African Soundscapes)
began playing music in 1975.  Sven has toured with various bands, such as Friendship with PJ Powers, Caz, Mia – The Worx, Sugar and Spice. 
He started a studio career working with the likes of Ray Phiri of Stimela, later producing and writing music for various artists in all genres and more recently, Stoan from Bongo Maffin. Sven writes music for TV and film scores, as well as engineering final mix for post-production studio Cherry on Top in Johannesburg, while continuing to play live music as a guitarist.

Marshall Harmse (An African Journey and African Soundscapes)
started playing guitar at the age of sixteen. He joined the group Shiraz, which had a European hit song “Fighting for our Lives”, playing guitar with various other bands both in South Africa and abroad, touring the UK and Europe. Marshall performs at live gigs and also as a session musician, arranger, guitarist, keyboard player and programmer. He has worked in the theatre as musician and musical director, and at Sun City as entertainer. A studio sound engineer and music producer, he worked on more than a 100 albums for several record companies in both indigenous African and Pop music fields. Marshall joined Urban Brew’s Rhythm Factory in early 1999 as technical and studio manager to oversee the metamorphosis form audio studios to audio-visual, post-production and multimedia powerhouse.

Andy Innes (Visions Africa)
cut his teeth on musical theatre and as the musical director for the PJ Powers band. Having worked with numerous name artists in SA such as Vicky Samson, Abigail Khubeka, Sophie Mgcina, Yvonne Chaka Chaka and others, he went on to become the guitarist and musical director for Johnny Clegg, also performing this function for artists like Jackson Browne and working with Peter Gabriel, Dave Stewart, Ernest Ranglin and others. Continuing his tenure with Clegg, Andy also produces maskandi artists in a joint venture with Sony BMG.