Margaret Singana
Margaret Singana, born as Margaret M'cingana ( * 1938 in Queenstown, † 22 April 2000) was a South African singer, known as Lady Africa in Southern Africa.
Life and work
Singana Margaret was born in 1938 in Queenstown in today's Eastern Cape Province. She worked in the 1950s as a domestic worker in Johannesburg, where one of her employer discovered her singing talent. In 1972, she took on Good Feelings with her band and became the first black artist who made it into the Dutch Radio 5 hit parade. Her song I Never Loved a Man the Way I Loved You was a hit.
She was also a musical singer. The first appearances they had in Sponono by Alan Paton and Sikalo of Gibson Kente. In 1974, Margaret Singana lead singer in the musical The Warrior of Bertha EGNOS and Gail Lakier. The band, which was responsible for the music in the play, was announced with " Ipi 'N Tombia featuring Margaret Singana " so that this musical ( German as: " Young Girl " ) as Ipi Tombi was known. It was in South Africa and internationally successful. The best-known songs from Ipi Tombi The Warrior are, Mom and Ipi Tombi Tembu 's Wedding.
After a stroke in 1978 Margaret Singana suffered their poor health. In 1986, she had but with We Are Growing, the theme song of the television series Shaka Zulu, once an international hit, which brought it to 1989 to No. 1 on the Dutch charts.
Awards
For her work, Margaret Singana received many prizes and awards, including the Critics Award 1976/1977 of the British music magazine Music Week.