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Zahara
Zahara is credited on 100 releases across 35 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1992–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
100
Pressings credited
35
Albums
4
Decades active
1
In collections
Biography
Bulelwa Mkutukana (9 November 1987 – 11 December 2023), known by her stage name Zahara, was a South African singer, songwriter and guitarist. Her music was classified loosely as "Afro-soul", and she sang in Xhosa, her native language, as well as in English. After signing a record deal with TS Records, Mkutukana's debut album, Loliwe (2011), went double platinum. Her second album, Phendula (2013), produced three chart-topping singles "Phendula", "Impilo", and "Stay". Zahara's third album, Country Girl (2015), was certified triple platinum. Following her departure from TS Records, she signed a record deal with Warner Music. Her fourth album, Mgodi (2017), was her best-selling album and was certified platinum, while her fifth album, Nqaba Yam (2021), peaked at number 1 on iTunes. Her accolades included seventeen South African Music Awards, three Metro FM Awards, and one Nigeria Entertainment Award. Zahara was on the 2020 list of the BBC's 100 Women. She appeared as a guest judge on the seventeenth season of Idols South Africa in 2021.
Bio from Wikipedia
Credited work
100 releases · 35 albums · active 1992–2025
- Performance · 499
- Other credits · 212
- Production · 48
- Engineering · 31
Studios: Estudios Blind Records · Estudio Uno · Gregoria Mátanos · Kartoffel Kollektiv
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Miss Caffeina
- Love Of Lesbian
- _Juno
- Various
- Carlos Sadness
- Mikel Erentxun
- Leiva (2)
- Izaro
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