Silent Majority (hip hop group)

Silent Majority was a Swiss rap and hip hop music group. Founded in 1994 they were produced by Goetz (U2, Faithless). Considered turntable pioneers at the forefront of Swiss hip-hop.[1] Silent Majority are unusual within the scene, defining themselves as "funky multi-linguals", and rap in "a mixture of English, Jamaican patois, French, Spanish and Swahili."[2]

For other uses, see Silent Majority (disambiguation).
Silent Majority
OriginSwitzerland
GenresHip hop
Years active1994 (1994)–1998 (1998)

The members of Silent Majority decided to split up right after the release of their last album, Nightbloomers, in 1998.[3]

References
  1. Bogdanov, Vladimir. All Music Guide to Hip Hop: The Definitive Guide to Rap and Hip Hop. Milwaukee: Backbeat Books, 2003.
  2. Mitchell, Tony. "Doin' Damage in my Native Language: The Use of Resistance Vernaculars in Hip Hop in France, Italy, and Aotearoa/New Zealand". Popular Music & Society 24, No. 3 (2000): 41.
  3. "Silent Majority". Discogs. Retrieved 3 April 2016.


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