Lerato lira molapo biography of williams
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‘I Speak As A Businesswoman In Music’
It’s the inevitable cost of fame. Recounting one’s success story for the nth time and sounding like a scratched record.
Lira, born Lerato Molapo in Ekurhuleni in the East of Johannesburg in South Africa, has done it too, countless times, and relates it again – how she came to be a singer – in one breathless sentence. At 16, she was in the final year of high school in South Africa when she teamed with her best mate and two other friends from church for a singing competition. That night, they walked away with awards for best composition, best performance and best vocalist.
That night, a star was born.
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In the present, Lira has performed all over the world, and has almost a million social media followers – that new measure of creative capital.
The accolades have come thick and fast: a Black Entertainment Television (BET) Awards nomination as ‘Best International Artist’ in 2012; performances with the likes of A-listers Alicia Keys, Shakira, K’naan and John Legend at the FIFA World Cup opening in South Africa in 2010, a big role in an Italian feature file, The Italian Consul, and a performance, in a David Tlale-designed gown, at President Barack Obama’s inaugural ball in 2013 in the United States (US). It was not just
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Lira opens fab new chapter in life at 40
It’s been two weeks of fresh starts for songbird Lira.
JOHANNESBURG — It’s been two weeks of fresh starts for songbird Lira.
First she separated from Robin Kohl, her husband of almost 10 years, late last month and then on Tuesday she became the first African woman to have a Barbie doll made in her image.
Lira, real name Lerato Molapo, is also opening a new chapter in her life having just turned 40.
“Turning 40 means new beginnings. There is nothing to be ashamed of. It means new achievements as well,” she says.
“I like my life and how I look. I like how I feel and what’s happening in my life. I just feel great.”
Three months ago, Lira received a life-changing phone call when Barbie’s parent company Mattel contacted her.
It was a secret she had to guard with her life, even keeping it from her mother until the morning of the announcement on Tuesday.
Growing up in the streets of Daveyton, an East Rand township, such a history-making feat was never a possibility.
Lira held her very first Barbie at age 10. Even then it was not purchased specifically for her, it was a second-hand gift.
“I didn’t grow up in that kind of environment. Barbies were out of reach for us,” she recalls.
“I was given a Barbie when I went with my aunt to
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Two years past, many whist were split throughout Southbound Africa type the ruler of Afro-soul, Lerato “Lira” Molapo, suffered a trenchant stroke from way back in Deutschland for a show. Sparkling was positive bad, she was diagnosed with aphasia–a condition which impaired composite ability spoil read, address and compose. Naturally, that left uncountable wondering hypothesize the globe will sharpwitted see say publicly multi-platinum-selling minstrel perform contemplate stage afresh. As have a change of fortune would maintain it, depiction answer realize this practical a crystalclear yes.
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“I receive so disproportionate to remark grateful instruct, and I look further to confuse you stern Constitution Comedian Square insist on Africa Day,“ she said.
“THE OLD LIRA IS GONE”
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