Musical Artists from South Africa

Basil Rathbone
Basil Rathbone
Actors & Actresses, Musical Artists

Basil Rathbone, MC (13 June 1892 – 21 July 1967) was a South African–born British actor most famous for his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes and of suave villains in such swashbuckler films as...

Dave Matthews
Dave Matthews
Actors & Actresses, Musical Artists, TV Actors & Actresses

David John Matthews (born January 9, 1967) is a South African-American Grammy Award-winning musician. He is best known as the lead vocalist, songwriter, and guitarist for the Dave Matthews...

Dean Geyer
Dean Geyer
Musical Artists

Dean Stanley Geyer (originally from Johannesburg, South Africa) is an Australian singer-songwriter and actor who finished third in the talent contest Australian Idol 2006. In the weeks...

Miriam Makeba
Miriam Makeba
Actors & Actresses, Musical Artists

Miriam Makeba (4 March 1932 - 10 November 2008) was a South African singer and civil rights activist. The Grammy Award winning artist is often referred to as Mama Afrika. Zenzile Miriam...

Tammin
Tammin
TV Actors & Actresses, Musical Artists, Actors & Actresses

Tammin Pamela Sursok (born 19 August 1983) is an Australian actress and musician of South African origin. She is best known for the role of Dani Sutherland on Home and Away, as Colleen...

Trevor Rabin
Trevor Rabin
Musical Artists

Trevor Charles Rabin (born January 13, 1954) is a South African-born musician, best known as a guitarist, vocalist and songwriter for the British progressive rock band Yes from 1983–1994...

Glynis Johns
Glynis Johns
Actors & Actresses, TV Actors & Actresses

Glynis Johns (born 5 October 1923) is a British stage and film actress, dancer, pianist and singer (notably of "Send in the Clowns," which she originated in Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night...

Stanley Unwin
Stanley Unwin
Actors & Actresses, TV Actors & Actresses

Stanley Unwin (7 June 1911 Pretoria, South Africa – 12 January 2002 Danetre Hospital, Daventry, Northamptonshire), sometimes billed as Professor Stanley Unwin, was a British comedian and...

Blondie Chaplin
Blondie Chaplin
Musical Artists

Terence William 'Blondie' Chaplin (born 7 July 1951) is a musician from Durban, South Africa who first became known to international audiences through his brief stint in the early 1970s as a...

Jean Grae
Jean Grae
Musical Artists, Actors & Actresses

Jean Grae (real name Tsidi Ibrahim, also known as What? What? & Da Easter Bunny, born 1976) is a hip hop artist from New York. Born in Cape Town, South Africa on November 26, 1976, the...

Robert Schneider
Robert Schneider
Musical Artists

Robert Peter Schneider (born March 9, 1971) is one of the co-founders of The Elephant 6 Recording Company, along with Will Cullen Hart, Bill Doss, and Jeff Mangum. He is perhaps best known...

Sebastian Ingrosso
Sebastian Ingrosso
Musical Artists

Sebastian Ingrosso (born Sebastian Carmine Ingrosso on April 20, 1983) is a Swedish DJ and producer of Italian descent. Raised in Sweden, Sebastian spent his teenage years in his fathers...

Lucky Dube
Lucky Dube
Musical Artists

Lucky Philip Dube (pronounced doo-bay) (August 3, 1964 – October 18, 2007) was a South African reggae musician. He recorded 22 albums in Zulu, English and Afrikaans in a 25-year period and...

Hugh Masekela
Hugh Masekela
Actors & Actresses, Musical Artists

Hugh Ramopolo Masekela (b. Witbank, South Africa, April 4, 1939) is a South African trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, composer, and singer. He began playing the gramophone at the age of...

J. R. R. Tolkien
J. R. R. Tolkien
Actors & Actresses, Authors, Musical Artists

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the high fantasy...

Lionel Bart
Lionel Bart
Musical Artists, Authors

Lionel Bart (August 1, 1930 – April 3, 1999) was a writer and composer of British pop music and musicals, best known for creating the book, music & lyrics for Oliver! Bart was born Lionel...

Terence Stamp
Terence Stamp
Authors, Actors & Actresses, TV Actors & Actresses

Terence Henry Stamp is an Academy Award-nominated English actor. He is best known for having played the character General Zod in the Superman movie franchise as well as providing...

Jah Wobble
Jah Wobble
Musical Artists

Jah Wobble (born John Joseph Wardle, on 11 August 1958 in Stepney) is an English bass guitarist, singer, poet and composer. He became known to a wider audience as the original bass player in...

Kenny Lynch
Kenny Lynch
Musical Artists, TV Actors & Actresses

Kenny Lynch, OBE (born 18 March 1938, Stepney, London, England) is an English singer, songwriter, entertainer and actor from London. Lynch appeared in many variety shows in the 1960s. He was...

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