14 years after the passing of Brenda Fassie, twitter reacts positively!

Today marks 14 years after the passing of our beloved Afropop singer, Brenda Fassie. On the morning of 26 April 2004, Fassie collapsed at her home in Buccleuch, Gauteng, and was admitted into a hospital in Sunninghill.

MaBrr (as affectionately known to her fans) was visited in the hospital by the former President Nelson Mandela, Winnie Mandela, and Thabo Mbeki, and her condition was front-page news in South African papers. She passed on aged 39 on 9 May 2004 in hospital without returning to consciousness after her life support machines were turned off.

The Queen of African Pop – Brenda Nokuzola Fassie was born in Langa, Cape Town on the 3rd November 1964, as the youngest of nine children. She was named after the American singer Brenda Lee. Her father died when she was two, and with the help of her mother, a pianist, she started earning money by singing for tourists. She was affectionately called MaBrrr by her fans, she was sometimes described as the Queen of African Pop or the “Madonna of The Townships” or simply as The Black Madonna. Her bold stage antics earned a reputation for “outrageousness”.




In 1981, at the age of 16, she left Cape Town for Soweto, Johannesburg, to seek her fortune as a singer. Brenda Fassie first joined the vocal group Joy (filling in for one of the members who was on maternity leave) and later became the lead singer for a township music group called Brenda and the Big Dudes.

With very outspoken views and frequent visits to the poorer townships of Johannesburg, as well as songs about life in the townships, she enjoyed tremendous popularity. Known best for her songs Weekend Special and Too Late for Mama, she was dubbed “The Madonna of the Townships” by Time Magazine in 2001.

From 1996 she released several solo albums, including Now Is the Time, Memeza (1997), and Nomakanjani. Most of her albums became multi-platinum sellers in South Africa; Memeza was the best-selling album in South Africa in 1998.

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