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Affectionately called MaBrrr by her fans, she was sometimes described as the "Queen of African Pop", the "Madonna of The Townships" or simply as The Black Madonna.















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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).





Brenda died at age 39 on 9 May 2004 in hospital without returning to consciousness after her life support machines were turned off.





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.











Her manager, Peter Snyman, denied this aspect of the report.She was voted 17th in the Top 100 Great South Africans. Brenda was born in Langa, Cape Town as the youngest of 9 children.



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.





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Brenda was born in Langa, Cape Town as the youngest of 9 children.


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.





4 Brenda married ex-convict Nhlanhla Mbambo in 1989 but later in 1991 got divorced. 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. 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.