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


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

2 3 A new version of Last.fm is available, to keep everything running smoothly, please Brenda Fassie (November 3, 1964 – May 9, 2004), was a legendary South African pop singer and widely considered the voice for disenfranchised blacks during apartheid.





Fassie survived, underwent rehabilitation, and got her career back on track.


Brenda Fassie Death Fassie collapsed at her home in Buccleuch, Gauteng on the morning of 26 April 2004, and was admitted into a hospital in Sunninghill. 5 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.



Connect your Spotify account to your Last.fm account and scrobble everything you listen to, from any Spotify app on any device or platform. 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. 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.

Loading player… 1 Brenda Nokuzola Fassie was born on 3rd of November 1964 in Langa, a township near Cape Town.She was named after the American country singer Brenda Lee. Let us know what you think of the Last.fm website.



The press were told that she had suffered cardiac arrest but later reported that she had slipped into a coma brought on by an asthma attack.



It was around this time that she became addicted to cocaine and her career suffered.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. Version 5, edited by

Brenda Fassie (born November 3, 1964, Langa, Cape Town – died May 9, 2004) was a South African anti-apartheid Afropop singer. Artist descriptions on Last.fm are editable by everyone.

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.

Brenda first joined the group Joy and later became the lead singer for the township pop group Brenda And The Big Dudes.







4 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.



Wildly popular black South African singer (primarily kwaito and mbaqanga) from the Cape Town township of Langa whose career started at the age of 16 after she moved to Soweto (near Johannesburg).

She stopped breathing and suffered brain damage from lack of oxygen. Feel free to contribute!

Brenda was born in Langa, Cape Town as the youngest of 9 children. Brenda married ex-convict Nhlanhla Mbambo in 1989 but later in 1991 got divorced. Known best for her songs "Weekend Special" and "Too Late for Mama", she was called by Time Magazine in 2001 "The Madonna of the Townships".In a drug-related incident in 1995 she was discovered unconscious with the body of her lover, Poppie Sihlahla, who had died of an apparent overdose.









She was affectionately known as the Queen of African Pop. Her bold stage antics earned a reputation for "outrageousness".