Let us know what you think of the Last.fm website. She was named after In 1981, at the age of 16, she left Cape Town for Soweto, Johannesburg to seek her fortune as a singer.

Brenda Fassie (Langa, Le Cap, 3 novembre 1964 – Johannesbourg, 10 mai 2004) était une chanteuse de variétés Sud africaine d'origine xhosa Sommaire 1 Biographie

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The daughter of a pianist, Brenda began singing to her mother's accompaniment at a very young age, and already at the age of five, she had tourists paying to hear her sing.

She stopped breathing and suffered brain damage from lack of oxygen.

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Most of her albums became multi-platinum sellers in South Africa.On the morning of 26 April 2004, Brenda collapsed at her home in Buccleuch and was admitted into the Sunninghill hospital in Johannesburg.

Brenda Fassie (born November 3, 1964, Langa, Cape Town – died May 9, 2004) was a South African anti-apartheid Afropop singer.

Brenda was born in Langa, Cape Town as the youngest of 9 children. The press was informed that she had suffered cardiac arrest but later reported that she had slipped into a coma brought on by an asthma attack. According to the South African Sunday Times and the managers of her music company, the post-mortem report also showed that she was HIV-positive.

Known as the "Queen of the Vocals" and dubbed the "Madonna of the Townships" by Time Magazine, Brenda Fassie was one of South Africa's most popular vocalists, mixing African vocals with a slick international pop sound. Fassie survived, underwent rehabilitation, and got her career back on track.

Her manager, Peter Snyman, denied this aspect of the report.She was voted 17th in the Top 100 Great South Africans.

Affectionately called MaBrrr by her fans, she was sometimes described as the "Queen of African Pop", the "Madonna of The Townships" or simply as The Black Madonna. Version 5, edited by

She was affectionately known as the Queen of African Pop.

However, she still had drug problems and returned to drug rehabilitation clinics about 30 times in her life.Since 1996 she released several solo albums like "Now Is The Time", "Memeza" (1997, the best selling album in South Africa) or "Nomakanjani?".

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She had her greatest success in the 1980s and continued to record into the ensuing decades, but became a celebrity known more for her off-stage antics than her on-stage work.

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