Dorothy Masuka is a jazz singer who was born in
Zimbabwe in
1935, then called Southern
Rhodesia. She was the fourth of seven children and her mother was
Zulu while her father was a
Zambian hotel
chef. Still, she attended a
Catholic school deemed good by the standards of education allowed blacks. Her family moved to
South Africa when she was twelve due to her health. By the time she was nineteen she was touring in South Africa with singers she had admired as a girl.
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