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When icons pass on, the default is to memorialise them based on the merits of what they did, as opposed to the gift of who they were as human beings.
In an unconscious assumption that their work defined who they were, their greatness is measured more by the prestige of their accomplishments and public status and less on how their very existence touched the lives of those around them.
While this may be appropriate and to an extent necessary, I believe that the death of a person augments the scope of memory. Its sting of finality provides an opportunity for deeper reflection where the central focus should become an individual’s character: who they really were in relation to their immediate community.
The cause of death was not revealed.
The internationally acclaimed singer was born in Orlando West, Soweto in 1957. She was regarded as one of the greatest of our time; her singing talents ranging from opera and jazz to choral music and musical theatre.
Khumalo rose to fame in 1993 when she won the Standard Bank Young Artist Award at the Grahamstown Arts Festival. She collected awards and acknowledgements throughout her career, the most prestigious being the Silver Order of Ikhamanga in 2008.
The internationally revered artist has been lauded as one of the great singing talents of her time and has inspired the creation of new music by South African composers, both in the classical, opera as well as jazz genres.