Mary Eveline Fincken
South African singer and educationist
South African singer and educationist
South African political activist, educationist, and musician
South African singer-songwriter known as P. J. Powers
Renowned Spanish flamenco dancer
American transgender trailblazer
Singer Brenda Lee has enjoyed success as a child performer, teen idol, easy-listening chanteuse, and country music queen, sustained through each of these career transformations by a powerful voice. An important pioneer of early rock and roll, she achieved unprecedented international popularity during the 1960s.
Charlotte Thompson Reid had already enjoyed a career as a nationally acclaimed singer before she began her second career relatively late in life as the widow and successor of a congressional candidate who died in mid-campaign.
South African jazz singer and composer, and anti-apartheid activist
South African opera singer and film actor
South African jazz singer