JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — South African disco queen, Patricia Majalisa, died of liver failure on Thursday.
She was 53.
In a message posted on the late Dan Tshanda’s Facebook page, Dalom Stable manager Sylvia Tshanda said the world has lost a music icon, leader and great entertainer.
“It is with sadness, regret, anguish and sorrow that I announce the passing of the Disco Queen, Patricia Majalisa. Her untimely death has left us and tens of 1,000s of fans around the world in shock,” Tshanda wrote.
“Majalisa leaves a legacy behind, she graced the stage, she lit parties and dominated the radio stations across Africa and beyond, both at the times when she was with Dalom Stable and when she wasn’t.”
Sylvia said Majalisa’s music “united all across different cultural, racial and linguistic divides, not only in Africa but the world over.”
Majalisa, who had thousands of fans in South Africa, Zimbabwe and other countries, passed away at Helen Joseph’s Hospital in Johannesburg on Thursday.
Her spokesman Oscar Tee said the singer told him earlier this week that she had taken some traditional concoction to “clean her system” but feared she had “overdosed” after developing a running tummy.
She died over liver failure at around 10AM after being taken to hospital.
Majalisa, born on February 15, 1967, in Mdantsane, East London, was recruited by the late South African music guru, Dan Tshanda, to the Dalom Stable in the 1980s. She produced over 17 albums, including the smash hit, Akulalwa Ziyawa.
