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Mpho Skeef (pronounced /mpʰo skʲɪəf/, born ), known by her stage name of Mpho, is a South African-born British singer-songwriter based in London.

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Mpho's family moved from South Africa to London United Kingdom when she was a toddler to escape apartheid laws that made the very fact of her existence evidence of a crime. Music was a constant presence, with both her biological father and her stepdad being professional musicians. After starring in secondary school plays and concerts – and having classmates asking for her autograph after particularly fiery performances - Mpho found herself a smaller fish in a bigger pond at the Brits School in C

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2000-01-01
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Mpho Skeef (pronounced /mpʰo skʲɪəf/, born ), known by her stage name of Mpho, is a South African-born British singer-songwriter based in London.

==Early and personal life== Skeef was born during the apartheid regime in South Africa to Sipho Mabuse and Mary Edwards. Her first name is a SeSotho word meaning "gift". Mpho spent her first birthday imprisoned in Caledon Square, Cape Town with her mother who was an anti-apartheid campaigner. She moved to the United Kingdom at the age of four and was brought up in Stockwell, Clapham and Brixton by her mother and her stepfather, Eugene Skeef. She attended the BRIT School in Croydon.

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