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South African artist: Margaret Singana
Track 19 off her CD ‘Lady Africa’ (1996)

Margaret Singana (Margaret Mcingana, (*1938 in Queenstown, Eastern Cape – †April 22, 2000) was a South African singer. In the 1950s she moved from Queenstown, Cape Province to Johannesburg in the then Transvaal (now Gauteng), where she found work as a domestic servant.

It was, while cleaning people’s houses, that Margaret Singana was ‘discovered’. She used to sing while cleaning. Her employers were so impressed that they recorded her singing and sent the tape to a record company. The producers of the musical ‘Sponono‘, written by Alan Paton, gave her a part as a chorus singer in 1964.

In the 1970s Singana started performing with ‘The Symbols‘. In 1972 she recorded ‘Good feelings‘ with the band. The single reached No 2 on the old LM Hit Parade. In 1973 Singana was cast as the lead singer in the musical ‘Ipi Tombi‘ and soon made herself famous with the song ‘Mama Tembu’s wedding‘. In 1977 the song ‘I never loved a man‘ became a big hit for her. It charted the ‘Springbok SA Top20’ for 18 weeks and reached the highest position of no 2 on the Charts.

Although she enjoyed her greatest success during the 1970s, she made a triumphant comeback following a debilitating stroke in 1980 after which she suffered bad health for many years. In 1986 Margaret Singana returned to the microphone to sing ‘We Are Growing’ (the theme song from the SA television mini-series ‘Shaka Zulu’) which went to number 1 in Holland in 1989.

Singana received many awards, including the 1976/1977-Critics Award from the British magazine, ‘Music Week‘. In South Africa she was (and still is) known as ‘Lady Africa’

Margaret Singana, the world-renowned South African singing star, passed away on Saturday, 22 April 2000 (aged 63). But that was to be her final bow and she died largely forgotten, and in a financial situation unfitting a star appropriately and affectionately dubbed ‘Lady Africa‘.

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