As news of Nelson Mandela’s death broke in South Africa this week, one song became inescapable – from giant soundsystems erected in Soweto to pop stations that normally exist on a diet of Katy Perry ...

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Actress Brenda Ngxoli recently opened up about how the opportunity to portray the late Brenda Fassie brought her back to acting after she had retired. Ngxoli portrays Fassie in a four-part documentary ...

Brenda Fassie - Madonna of the Townships, BBC Radio 2, Tuesday 15 November 2005, 8.30-9.30pm Neneh Cherry presents a tribute to Brenda Fassie, South Africa's first pop music 'celebrity', who died in ...

Young South African artists have reflected on Brenda Fassie’s life on what would have been her 61st birthday earlier this week. “We’ve heard it all before ‘believe in yourself’ but hers was like the ...

In 1997, South Africa’s most famous music star had a huge hit. Brenda Fassie’s Vulindlela became a national pop anthem, played especially at weddings and celebrations. Vulindlela can be loosely ...

One of the rarest album in the KCRW library (and mine as well) is a 1984 12″ single by a South African group called Joy, lead by Brenda Fassie, late niece of Nelson Mandela. It was issued by Island ...

VITALS Born in Langa, Cape Town, South Africa in 1964 When Brenda Fassie was four, she started a singing group. At 14, she had moved from her home town to Johannesburg to seek her musical fortune. She ...

Brenda Fassie, South Africa ‘ s first black pop star, who gave a voice to disenfranchised blacks at the height of apartheid, has died of complications from an asthma attack, her family said. She was ...

President Thabo Mbeki paid a short visit to comatose pop diva Brenda Fassie at the Sunninghill Hospital north of Johannesburg on Monday night. African National Congress spokesperson Smuts Ngonyama ...