1. Shaun Morgan (1978)

South African Musician

South African frontman and guitarist with the post-grunge band Seether. The band released their first album Disclaimer in 2002.

2. Hugh Masekela (1939)

South African Musician

Jazz trumpeter and singer who became known as a member of Johnny Gertze, the first major African jazz group to record an LP. He was nominated for a Grammy Award in...

3. Kurt Darren (1970)

South African Musician

Afrikaans pop artist who gained national success in South Africa for his 2002 album, Meisie, Meisie.

4. John Kongos (1945)

South African Musician

South African singer-songwriter most famous for hit singles like "He's Gonna Step On You Again" and "Tokoloshe Man." He has since made a name for himself in the world of...

5. Mandoza (1978)

South African Musician

Mduduzi Edmund Tshabalala, or as he was better known, Mandoza, was an award-winning kwaito musician who released more than a dozen successful albums before his death at the hands of...

6. Trevor Rabin (1954)

South African Musician

Guitarist, singer, and songwriter born in South Africa who fronted the British rock band Yes from 1982 to 1994.

7. Bheki Mseleku (1955)

South African Musician

Jazz musician who excelled at piano, saxophone, guitar, composition, and arrangement. He had no training and was completely self-taught.

8. Toya Delazy (1990)

South African Musician

Singer who rapidly became known for her debut album Due Drop, she was nominated for Best International Act at the 2013 BET Awards. She also took the title of Best...

9. Watkin Tudor Jones (1974)

South African Musician

South African rapper best known by his stage named Ninja. He rose to fame as a member of the eccentric rave-rap crew Die Antwoord. The group's breakout single "Enter the Ninja"...

10. Petronel Malan (1976)

South African Musician

One of South Africa's greatest pianists and one of the youngest people to come in first at the SABC Music Prize Competition.

11. Elvis Blue (1979)

South African Musician

Platinum-selling singer who appeared on the South African show, Idols: South Africa.

12. Steve Hofmeyr (1964)

South African Musician

Afrikaans folk artist who released the hit albums Desertbound and Beautiful Noise.

13. Jonathan Butler (1961)

South African Musician

Jazz, R&B, and worship singer, guitarist, and songwriter. He played with the rock and jazz band Pacific Express and later released "Lies," a 1987 Grammy Award-nominated single.

14. Mbongeni Ngema (1955)

South African Musician

Mbongeni Ngema is a South African writer lyricist composer and director born in Verulam KwaZulu-Natal. He started his career as a theatre backing guitarist. His ex-wife is actress Leleti Khumalo...

15. DJ SFR (1985)

South African Musician

DJ SFR is a South African drum & bass dubstep producer and DJ from Cape Town. SFR's sound is known for its jump up and dub influences.

16. Timothy Moloi (1975)

South African Musician

Timothy Moloi is a South African singer and recording artist.

17. ZP Theart (1975)

South African Musician

Zachary Paul ZP Theart is a heavy metal vocalist best known as the former singer of British power metal band DragonForce. With DragonForce ZP recorded four studio albums. In 2010...

18. Don Laka (1958)

South African Musician

Donald Mahwetša Laka professionally known as Don Laka is a South African jazz musician pianist songwriter music producer and entrepreneur. He is co-founder of Kalawa Jazzmee and owner of Bokone...

19. Claude Deppa (1958)

South African Musician

Claude Deppa is a jazz trumpeter born in Cape Town South Africa probably best known for his work with the Brotherhood of Breath and Carla Bley.

20. Julien Laubscher (1987)

South African Musician

Julien Laubscher also known as Julien Cassette is a South African pop artist; singer pianist keyboardist programmer producer musician and actor.

21. Jesse Clegg (1988)

South African Musician

Jesse Clegg is a singer-songwriter from South Africa and the son of the musician Johnny Clegg.

22. Letta Mbulu (1942)

South African Musician

Letta Mbulu is a South African jazz singer born and raised in Soweto. She has been active since the 1960s but left for the United States in 1965 due to...

23. Anke Pietrangeli (1982)

South African Musician

Anke Pietrangeli is a South African singer. She was the winner of the second season of popular talent search series Idols in South Africa in 2003. Like her predecessor Heinz...

24. Koos Kombuis (1954)

South African Musician

Koos Kombuis is a South African musician singer songwriter and writer who became famous as part of a group of anti-establishment maverick Afrikaans musicians who under the collective name of...

25. Thandiswa Mazwai (1976)

South African Musician

Thandiswa Mazwai is a multi-award winning South African musician and is also the lead vocalist and songwriter of Bongo Maffin.

26. Jabulani Dubazana (1954)

South African Musician

Jabulani Frederick Mwelase Dubazana was a member of Ladysmith Black Mambazo a South African choral group founded in 1960 - and still led - by close friend Joseph Shabalala. Dubazana...

27. Tony Cox (South African musician) (1954)

South African Musician

same name see Anthony Cox. Tony Cox is a Zimbabwean born guitarist and composer based in Cape Town South Africa. A master of the Fingerpicking style of guitar playing he...

28. Bongi Makeba (1950)

South African Musician

Bongi Makeba was a South African singer/songwriter. She was the only child of singer Miriam Makeba with her first husband James Kubay. Makeba was born in South Africa. She recorded...

29. Abednego Mazibuko (1954)

South African Musician

Mpindela Abednego Mazibuko is a member of Ladysmith Black Mambazo a South African choral group founded in 1960 - and still led - by his cousin Joseph. Abednego was born...

30. Sipho Mabuse (1951)

South African Musician

Sipho Hotstix Mabuse was born in Johannesburg on 2 November 1951. After dropping out of school in the 1960s Mabuse got his start in the African soul group the Beaters...

31. David Kramer (singer) (1951)

South African Musician

David Kramer is a South African singer songwriter playwright and director most notable for his musicals about the Cape Coloured communities and for his early opposition to apartheid.

32. Nataniël (1963)

South African Musician

Nataniël le Roux- is a South African singer songwriter and entertainer. He launched his solo career in 1987 with the release of his first single Maybe Time. Since then he...

33. Ricky Fataar (1952)

South African Musician

Ricky Fataar is a South African multi-instrumentalist of Cape Malay descent who has performed as both a drummer and a guitarist. He gained fame as an actor in the comedic...

34. Lebo M. (1964)

South African Musician

Lebohang “Lebo M. ” Morake is a South African singer and composer most famous for arranging and performing music for The Lion King movies and stage productions. He was recommended...

35. Wendy Oldfield (1964)

South African Musician

Oldfield is a South African singer. At the age of nineteen she formed the rock group The Sweatband and from 1999 to 2001 she was involved with the band Mondetta....

36. PJ Powers (1960)

South African Musician

Penelope Jane Dunlop also known as PJ Powers or Thandeka has enjoyed a highly successful musical career in South Africa spanning more than 33 years. P. J. Powers has recorded...

37. Howza (1983)

South African Musician

Howza born Tshepo Howard Mosese is a South African rapper songwriter and actor.

38. Farryl Purkiss (1980)

South African Musician

Purkiss is a South African-born singer-songwriter. Farryl first picked up the guitar when he was fifteen years old and began writing songs shortly after his sixteenth birthday. He self-released an...

39. Karin Kortje (1980)

South African Musician

Karin Kortje is the winner of the third season of Idols in South Africa. With her in the final was Gift Gwe. After announcing the winner on 27 November 2005...

40. Danny K (1977)

South African Musician

Danny K is a South African singer songwriter and actor. He holds a B. A. degree from the Wits University. He has produced some chart topping hits and award winning...

41. Felix Laband (1977)

South African Musician

x Laband is an electronic music artist born in 1977 in Pietermaritzburg South Africa. He creates light emotional minimalist soundscapes by combining several styles and samples from classical jazz and...

42. Brandon October (1977)

South African Musician

Brandon Steve October is a South African pop singer-songwriter who rose to fame after being runner-up in the first season of the reality television show South African Pop Idols in...

43. Nianell (1971)

South African Musician

Nianell born Sonia Aletta Nel in Omaruru Namibia is a South African singer pianist guitarist and composer. After growing up in Windhoek Nianell graduated with a 3 year diploma in...

44. Syd Kitchen (1951)

South African Musician

Sydney Stanley Kitchen was a South African guitarist singer-songwriter and poet. Because of his uncompromising attitude towards the music industry he became an iconic figure in his native South Africa...

45. Dewald Louw (1986)

South African Musician

Dewald Louw is the winner of the first season of The Afrikaans KykNET Idols in South Africa. With him in the final were Alzonia Titus and Willem Botha. In 2003...

46. Piet van Wyk de Vries (1972)

South African Musician

Piet van Wyk de Vries is an independent South African songwriter and performer born in Pretoria in 1972.

47. Dilana (1972)

South African Musician

Dilana Robichaux is a singer songwriter and performer who lives in Los Angeles California. She is best known as the runner-up contestant on the CBS reality television show Rock Star:...

48. Riku Lätti (1973)

South African Musician

Riku Lätti was a South African singer songwriter and writer. After Riku matriculated in 1991 at Hoërskool Florida Johannesburg Gauteng Province he studied philosophy at University of the Witwatersrand where...

49. Moses Taiwa Molelekwa (1973)

South African Musician

Moses Taiwa Molelekwa was a South African jazz pianist from a family of jazz musicians. He was brought up in the town of Tembisa situated in the province of Gauteng...

50. Kesivan Naidoo (1979)

South African Musician

Kesivan Dev Naidoo is a South African drummer who plays predominately jazz electronica and world music.