Iyeza thandiswa mazwai biography
Iyeza thandiswa mazwai biography
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Thandiswa Mazwai
South African musician
Musical artist
Thandiswa Nyameka Mazwai (born 31 March 1976)[2] is a South Africanmusician, and is also the lead vocalist and songwriter of Bongo Maffin.
She is also known as King Tha.[3]
Her debut album Zabalaza (released in 2004), which attained double platinum status and her album also got nominated for Planet Awards on BBC Radio 3.[4] Also in 2004, she won Best Female Artist at the Metro FM Music Awards.[5]
Her second album, Ibokwe, released in 2009, was certified gold status within a few weeks after its release.[4]
Early life
Thandiswa Mazwai was born in Eastern Cape in 1976 – the year of the Soweto Uprising – and grew up almost entirely in Soweto, Johannesburg, amidst the heavy apartheid township violence of the 1980s.
Both her parents, Belede and Thami Mazwai,[6] were journalists and anti-apartheid political activists, and she recollects that her home was fil