The Bala Brothers are a vocal trio from the Kwa Nobuhle Township outside Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape.
The brothers first gained prominence when Zwai Bala joined the Drakensberg Boys' Choir School in 1988, becoming the first black member of the previously segregated group six years before the end of apartheid.
[8] In 2014, Phelo confirmed his calling as a sangoma, a high spiritual honour in indigenous South African culture.
Later that year, the Bala Brothers performed at the Cape Town Stadium in a memorial service Nelson Mandela, after his death in December 2013.
[11] In the fall of 2014, the Bala Brothers signed a deal with PBS to air a live performance of their forthcoming album with Warner.