SOBEDI

**SOBEDI** ( kwangilar ***So*** ciété ***Be*** lge du ***Di*** sque) fitaccen kamfani ne na rikodin Belgian kuma masana'anta Fernand Janssens ya kafa.     Wanda yake da hedkwata a Brussels, tare da ƙarin kayan aiki a Ghent don latsawa, plating, da bugu, SOBEDI ya taka rawa sosai a masana'antar kiɗan Turai da Kongo .    Kamfanin ya yi amfani da alamun rikodin rikodi da yawa, gami da Olympia (wanda aka saba da shi azaman Disques Olympia, Olympia Platen, da Discos Olympia sporadically), NewTone Records, Beffroi-Halle Toren-Belfry, Kongo Bina, Lomeka, Piccolo, Regina, Rythme, Metrophone, da Novelty.     Waɗannan tambarin sun ƙunshi rakodi ta nau'ikan nau'ikan Turai - galibin Belgian - da masu fasaha na Kongo. 

SOBEDI ya fadada isar sa a duniya ta hanyar haɗin gwiwa, gami da wakilcin London Records of Canada Ltd. a Kanada da Pathé Marconi EMI a Faransa .  Bayan alamun mallakar ta, SOBEDI ya ba da sabis na latsawa don kamfanonin rikodin da yawa, kamar Artone, CBS Records International, Polydor Records, da Ronnex Records .  Ayyukan SOBEDI sun fadada zuwa wallafe-wallafen kiɗa a ƙarƙashin reshensa, Fonogram, da rarraba ta hanyar mahallinsa, Cobedi SA ( *Consortium Belge du Disk* ). 

## Tarihi
Kwanan kafuwar SOBEDI ya kasance babu tabbas, amma an fara bayyana shi a cikin bugu na 1840 na *ofishin Annuaire na Belgium: Officieel jaarboek* na Ministère des Affaires Africaines a matsayin kamfani da ya kware wajen buga rikodin kiɗa, rikodi, da kera rikodin sauti.  Wasu majiyoyin kuma sun danganta kafuwar ta ga hamshakin dan kasuwa dan kasar Belgium Fernand Janssens, ko da yake har yanzu ba a san takamaiman ranar ba. 

A cikin 1935, kamfanin ya fadada ayyukansa ta hanyar samun tashar bugawa da bugawa a Waalse Krook a Ghent, wanda Chantal ya mallaka a baya kuma daga baya Edison Bell ya biyo bayan bankruptcy Chantal a 1932.  Alamar alama ta SOBEDI, Olympia, ta zama daidai da ayyukan rikodi kuma ta ba da sunanta ga Studio Studio da ke Brussels, inda ayyukan rikodi ya kasance. Frans Verbeeck ya yi aiki a matsayin manajan A&amp;amp;R na alamar, mai kula da masu fasaha da yanke shawara.   

### Bayan Yaƙin Duniya na Biyu da Ƙarshen Afirka
Bayan Yaƙin Duniya na Biyu, SOBEDI ya yi amfani da sabon damar tafiye-tafiye tsakanin Belgium da ƙasar Kongo ta Belgian . Fernand Janssens ya kawo na'ura mai ɗaukar hoto kai tsaye zuwa faifai zuwa Léopoldville ( Kinshasa ta zamani), inda masu fasaha na SOBEDI suka yi rikodin mawakan gargajiya da na zamani na Kongo.  Wadannan rikodin, ciki har da wasan kwaikwayon na Antoine Wendo Kolosoy da Victoria Kin, Orchester Odéon Kinois, Camille Feruzi, Chanteurs à la Croix de Cuivre (mawaƙa na giciye na jan karfe, daga ma'adinan a Katanga ), har ma da harshen Lingala, an danna cikin 78 RPM records a Ghent a ƙarƙashin Olympia's Labels African Series da kuma Bidiyo na Afirka ta Biyu.  Yayin da aka fara niyya ga masu sauraron Belgian, waɗannan bayanan sun sami karɓuwa sosai a cikin Belgian Kongo kanta.  Nasarar Olympia a Kongo Belgian ta bayyana kasuwa mai tasowa don kiɗan Afirka, wanda ke samun goyan bayan saurin bunƙasa biranen Léopoldville da haɓaka tallace-tallace na gramophones .  A shekara ta 1948, kundin tarihin Olympia ya yi fahariya fiye da rikodi 200. SOBEDI ya kafa haɗin gwiwa tare da ayyukan kiɗa na gida, ciki har da haɗin gwiwa tare da Loningisa, samar da kayan rikodi da kuma dannawa a cikin Belgium. Koyaya, ayyukanta a Léopoldville sun ƙare jim kaɗan kafin Kongo ’yancin kai a 1960. 

### Bayan shekaru
A cikin 1969, SA Fonior NV na tushen Brussels ya sami SOBEDI kuma an sake tsara shi a ƙarƙashin Sobelpress SA, tare da SA Fabeldis da Discopress. EW Pelgrims de Bigard ya zama sabon shugaban kasa, yayin da Georges Martens ya ci gaba da zama manajan gudanarwa. Studio na SOBEDI a Boulevard Lemonnier, wanda aka kafa a cikin 1945 tare da Kamfanin Microphone na Universal yana yanke lathe da Charles Monsieur a matsayin masaninsa, ya ci gaba da aiki har zuwa aƙalla 1974 a ƙarƙashin babban injiniyan injiniya Pierre Neirinckx. Maganar ƙarshe da aka sani game da shukar Ghent na SOBEDI a matsayin wani yanki daban tun daga 1973.

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