Margaret singana biography

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    Margaret Singana

    South African musician (1938–2000)

    Musical artist

    Margaret Singana (1938 – 22 April 2000), born Margaret M'cingana, was a South African musician.

    She is perhaps best known for her Xhosa song "Hamba Bhekile". An English-language version of the song, "We Are Growing", was used as soundtrack to the South African TV series Shaka Zulu.

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    • Early life

    Margaret Nomvula M'cingana was born in Queenstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa, the daughter of Agnes M'cingana. In the 1950s, she moved from Queenstown to Johannesburg in the then Transvaal, where she found work as a domestic servant.[1]

    Music career

    While she was working as a domestic worker, Singana was discovered singing as she was cleaning.[2] Her employers were so impressed that they recorded her voice 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. "Singana" was an adaptat