Rebecca Malope is one of the most established gospel artists in South Africa.
She has been consistent in her career.
Her growth is significant through the number of awards that she has won.
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She has also had great opportunities to perform in great events.
Here is all you gotta know about her.
Rebecca Malope is a lady after Gods heart.
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Her commitment to serving God through her music is unquestionable.
She, however, overcame all these declarations and is where she is because of the grace of God.
She has been through the test of times.
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However, God has seen her through every step of her life.
Her passion for music is evidence that God has been there for her.
She has risen to be the queen of Gospel music.
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Batsogile Lovederia Malope is her official name.
What is Rebecca Malopes age?
Rebecca Malope was born on June 30th, 1968 in Lekazi Mpumalanga, South Africa.
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As of date, her age is fifty years.
She, however, does not look like it, especially if you took a close look at her.
Doctors had even declared that she could never walk again.
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Because her family was poor, they could not seek a second opinion for her condition.
Themba Tshabalala works as a manager in a firm that deals with imports and exports.
In 2004, Rebecca was pregnant but lost her baby to a miscarriage.
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She got pregnant after doctors declared that she would never get pregnant.
Rebbecca, however, takes care of her late sisters kids.
Her sister passed on a few years back.
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Most people insinuate that from the pictures that she posts; one of the kids is Rebecca Malope daughter.
Rebecca Malope musical career
Rebecca decided to pursue her musical career in 1986.
She began by contesting in the Shell Road to Fame, which was a talent search for musicians.
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Unfortunately, she did not win.
She did not give up though.
She used this opportunity to mark the beginning of her musical career.
She signed up with Sizwe Zakoas her producer, and Peter Tiadi as her manager.
Together, they started working on her debut pop album, Sthembile Kuwe.
Rebecca was convinced that pop music was not the ideal genre for her.
She switched to gospel music.
The songs in the album would even get media coverage in most radio stations.
In 1989, she worked on her second and third albums.
The titles of the albums were; Thank you very much and Woza lovely respectively.
The two albums had a platinum status that year.
In 1990, she won the OKTV award in the best South African female artist category.
She sings in South African, and most of her songs are in Zulu.
This song is more than ten years old but never gets old.
It has accumulated more than eight hundred thousand views on YouTube.
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This is another old worship but touching worship song.
The song has more than one million views on YouTube.
This is another moving worship song.
Nginobaba Wami is another powerful worship song that the queen of rhymes has done.
Her voice brings out the mood in this song so perfectly.
Thank You Lord is an English praise song.
The song has been another break for Rebecca because it has accumulated close to two million views on YouTube.
The name of her show is Gospel Time.
She did not have the best childhood life but still trusted in God who re-wrote her story.
She has been through a test of time, but God has never let her down.
She graduated from Meru University of Science and Technology with a Bachelor of Technology in Civil Engineering in 2019.
In 2023, Priscillah finished the AFP course on Digital Investigation Techniques.
She has been writing articles on Briefly.co.za since 2019.
Email: pshmueni@gmail.com
