South Africa ' s Queen of gospel

South Africa 's Queen of Gospel, Rebecca Malope, recorded her first album ten years ago. Today she is South Africa’s biggest selling local artist and her music has spread in many countries being a well known gospel artist.

Rebecca Malope (pic) history.org.co

 According to the Music organization, Rebecca won the Shell Road to Fame talent search in which she realized her talent and dream. She struggled to find a record company that was willing to help her fulfill that dream. She enlisted the help of Sizwe Zako and they, together with Peter Tladi, were able to raise enough money to record Rebecca’s first album. Their confidence was rewarded when, in a matter of weeks, the album reached gold status.

Rebecca has never looked back, she has simply gone from strength to strength. To date, she has sold one million albums. All ten of Rebecca’s albums have sold in excess of gold and indeed the last six of her albums have garnered platinum discs.She won the OKTV Awards as best South African female artist for the period 1989/1990; when over 10 milllion listeners voted for her the best local established artist in the 1993 Coca Cola Full Blast music show. She won it again in 1994. Also in 1994, she won the FNB South African Music Award for Best gospel Singer. 

Rebecca Malpoe (pic) historyorg.co

 Rebecca also won the FNB South African Music Awards in the Best Selling Artist category for her album" Uzube nami". She has more recently been nominated for the same awards in the Best African Gospel, the Best African Pop Performance, the Best Female Artist and the Best Selling Album categories for "Angingedwa". 

To date she is still the best gospel artist in South Africa and even some parts in Zimbabwe.She seeks to preach the word of God through music.