The South African Broadcasting Corporation awarded Mango Groove five OKTV awards during the band’s early years:[15] The debut album, Mango Groove, won in the categories of “Best Album” and “Best Arranger”; one of the singles won “Best Video”.[2][which?] In 1991, Hometalk won “Best Pop Album”, and one of its singles won “Hit of the Year”.[13][which?] The OKTV Awards were an annual event in which members of the South African media were the judges. At the second annual South African Music Awards in 1996, the album Eat a Mango won a SAMA in the category “Best Adult Contemporary Performance: English”.[15] In 2017, the band’s seventh studio album, Faces to the Sun, was nominated in the “Best Adult Contemporary Album” and “Best Engineered Album” categories (the engineer was bandmember Andrew Baird).[73] The award for “Best Adult Contemporary Album” went to Hugh Masekela’s No Borders; the award for Best Engineered Album went to Arno Carstens’ Aandblom 13.[74] Other nominees in the Adult Contemporary Album category that year were Elvis Blue’s Optics, Majozi’s Fire, and Msaki’s Zaneliza: How the Water Moves.[73] In 2015, Buzz South Africa included “Special Star” on their list of the “100 Greatest South African Songs of All Time”.[7
Mango Groove
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