Mandoza
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Mduduzi Thembinkosi Edmund Tshabalala (17 January 1978 – 18 September 2016), also known as Mandoza, was a South African singer-songwriter and kwaito recording artist. He was known for his contributions to the kwaito genre and his numerous hit singles, including "Nkalakatha", "Uzoyithola Kanjani, Tornado", "Sgelekeqe", "Ngalabesi", "Godoba", "Tsotsi Yase Zola" and "Indoda", which topped the charts in South Africa and all over the African continent. His second album Nkalakatha, released in 2000, became the biggest selling album of his career, selling 350,000 units. He was the founding member of
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- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- South Africa
- Active from
- 1978
- Active to
- 2016
Discography
- Nkalakatha2000
- Godoba2001
- Tornado2002
- Mandoza2004
- Ngalabesi2006
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Mandoza (Mduduzi Edmund Tshabalala, January 19, 1978 – September 18, 2016) was a South African kwaito musician. Early life. Mandoza was born in the Zola South section of Soweto, where he shared a house with his parents, his grandparents and two sisters. When he was sixteen years old he was charged with stealing a car and received a one-and-a-half year sentence, which he served in Diepkloof prison. When he was released from prison, Mandoza formed the group Chiskop along with three childhood fr
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- South Africa
- Place of death
- Johannesburg
- Occupation
- record producer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- hip-hop
- Number of children
- 4
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- date of birth
- 1978-01-17
- date of death
- 2016-09-18
- cause of death
- head and neck cancer
- birth name
- Mduduzi Edmund Tshabalala
- manner of death
- natural causes
- start of work period
- 2016-00-00
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Mduduzi Thembinkosi Edmund Tshabalala (17 January 1978 – 18 September 2016), also known as Mandoza, was a South African singer-songwriter and kwaito recording artist. He was known for his contributions to the kwaito genre and his numerous hit singles, including "Nkalakatha", "Uzoyithola Kanjani, Tornado", "Sgelekeqe", "Ngalabesi", "Godoba", "Tsotsi Yase Zola" and "Indoda", which topped the charts in South Africa and all over the African continent. His second album Nkalakatha, released in 2000, became the biggest selling album of his career, selling 350,000 units. He was the founding member of the music group Chiskop.
A biopic which chronicles the life of Mandoza, titled Nkalakatha: The Life of Mandoza premiered on BET on the 16th of August 2023, in which Wiseman Mncube portrayed him.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mandoza” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.