Helele

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{{Infobox song

| name = Helele

| cover = Velile & Safri Duo - Helele.jpg

| alt =

| type = single

| artist = Velile and Safri Duo

| album = Greatest Hits

| released = 7 May 2010

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| genre = Pop

| length = 3:07

| label = Polydor

| writer = Jean Kluger, Daniel Vangarde, Velile Mchunu

| producer = Hardy Krech, Mark Nissen, Tonekind

| chronology = Safri Duo

| prev_title = Twilight

| prev_year = 2008

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}}

"Helele" is a Zulu language song by South African singer Velile Mchunu and Danish percussion duo Safri Duo. It was released on 7 May 2010 as the only new single from Safri Duo's Greatest Hits album.{{cite web|title=Helele – Single by Velile & Safri Duo – Download Helele – Single on iTunes|url=https://itunes.apple.com/dk/album/helele-single/id370730436|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101216033931/http://itunes.apple.com/dk/album/helele-single/id370730436|url-status=dead|archive-date=16 December 2010|publisher=iTunes Store|accessdate=12 June 2010}} The song was the official trailer song for the 2010 FIFA World Cup broadcast on German television channel RTL and Switzerland's Schweizer Fernsehen and Télévision Suisse Romande in June–July.{{cite web|title=Der offizielle RTL WM-Hit 2010: "Helele"|url=http://www.rtl.de/cms/unterhaltung/musik/wm-hit-2010.html?startid=322332|date=27 May 2010|publisher=RTL|accessdate=11 June 2010|language=German|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100617151447/http://www.rtl.de/cms/unterhaltung/musik/wm-hit-2010.html?startid=322332|archive-date=17 June 2010|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|title=SF gibt Polo einen Korb|url=http://www.20min.ch/life/musik/story/23139546|date=5 May 2010|publisher=20 Minuten Online|accessdate=23 June 2010|language=German}} "Helele" is based on the 1971 song "Aieaoa" by French producer Daniel Vangarde and Belgian producer Jean Kluger in the group Yamasuki. It was famously covered by Belgian group Black Blood in 1975 and English girl group Bananarama in 1981. "Helele" peaked at number one in Switzerland, number two in Germany and number eight in Austria.

On 29 August 2010, "Helele" has won an award for "Best International Single of the Summer" during the 2010 Bydgoszcz Hit Festival in Poland.[http://www.tvp.info/informacje/kultura/safri-duo-z-danii-podbili-bydgoszcz/2516889 Safri Duo z Danii podbili Bydgoszcz] (in Polish)