Zahara (South African musician)

Zahara Nairobi (cropped)

Bulelwa Mkutukana (9 November 1987 – 11 December 2023), best known by her stage name Zahara, was a South African singer and songwriter. Her music was classified loosely as "Afro-soul", and she sang in Xhosa, her native language, as well as in English.

Quotes

"VIDEO: Award winning South African afro-soul singer performing at Maple Ridge music fest" (2023)

VIDEO: Award winning South African afro-soul singer performing at Maple Ridge music fest MARPLE RIDGE- PITT MEADOWS NEWS ,4 August 2023 by Colleen Flanagan

• Till today, I don’t know chords, I don’t know notes, but I can play each and every song that you want me to play
• It’s in me, it’s what I live for. It’s like, something that you can wake me up at 12 a.m. and go and do because it’s in me.
• When I see people jolly, people, like, smiling, at least I know I’ve done something for somebody. They will go home happy, whatever troubles they came with.
• “I chose me first now. I don’t do anything because someone else is doing it.”[1]