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5.14.2004

Brenda Fassie, R.I.P.

South African pop diva Brenda Fassie died a few days ago. She was 39. I wasn't a real fan, but liked her songs, from the breezy "Weekend Special" to the triumphant "Black President." The BBC article linked above gives a good sense of her volatile, self-destructive personality-- think Courtney Love. But the best piece on her is in Mark Gevisser's Portraits of Power, a decade-old yet still excellent collection of incisive profiles of South African movers and shakers. Worth getting if you can.

posted by daudi • link: Friday, May 14, 2004

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