Get to Know the Band: Mellow Cool

Meet Mellow and his bandmates in ROCK STARS, Volume I: Astrojuggernaut, which you can download right now as a FREE EPUB by clicking the link here.

Melokuhle Ndelu (stage name Mellow Cool) was a South African guitarist and vocalist who joined the English rock band The Force during the production of its fourth album and has toured and recorded with the group ever since. Widely regarded as among the most gifted soloists in rock history, he was a child star in Cape Town and worked as a guest soloist for the South African razz band The Horn Dogs prior to his audition for The Force. Amy Love once described him as “sex on a six-string.” He’s also enjoyed moderate success as a solo artist in Cape Town, despite an ongoing dispute with the South African government over his imports of a prescription antinausea drug (and mild narcotic) called Iremia. He sometimes wears an opal ring through the bridge of his nose to symbolize his “third eye.” His stage name is a pun on his given name, which is Xhosa for “uphold what is right.”