Amanda Strydom

Quick Facts

Full Name	Amanda Strydom
Occupation	Singer
Date Of Birth	Jul 23, 1956(1956-07-23)
Age	68
Birthplace	Port Elizabeth
Country	South Africa
Birth City	Eastern Cape
Horoscope	Cancer

Amanda Strydom Biography

Amanda Strydom is one of the most popular and richest Singer who was born on July 23, 1956 in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Amanda Strydom (born 23 July 1956) is a South African singer and songwriter. Although she is best known for her singing talents, Strydom is also active as an actor and playwright especially in the cabaret field and television.

Johannesburg’s famed Market Theatre was the venue for her debut performance in the one of Hennie Aucamp’s cabarets, called Met Permissie Gese (Said By Permission). This was in 1981. She also played Grace Lipschitz in Hell is for Whites Only The play was written by Pieter-DirkUys. She also sang at Siener at die Suburbs for the official opening of the State Theatre in Pretoria. In the following year, she began performing in concert together with David Kramer.

Strydom achieved notoriety in 1986 for giving the black power salute after one of her songs in her cabaret at the Oude Libertas Hall in Stellenbosch. This salute was intimately associated with the black struggle and is still used as a call by black political leaders to this day. (The speaker would shout Amandla! raising his right fist in the air, to which an informed or sympathetic crowd would respond Ngawethu!) At the height of P.W. Botha’s presidency it would have been taboo for any white Afrikaans woman to use this salute on stage in front of a white-only audience. Consequently, Amanda Strydom was soon referred to as Amandla Strydom in popular culture. Strydom uses the black salute on stage to this day and even occasionally refers to herself as Amandla.

Shortly after this scandal Strydom was facing her own private struggle with bipolar depression, something she has written about honestly in her play In Full Light, and in the song Strydom/Amandla. She worked very little between 1988 and 1990. It is worthwhile to note that Strydom’s depression coincided with a very traumatic time in the history of her country, and also that she returned to public life at the same time that apartheid was being dismantled. In 1991 she worked again, performing the cabaret Midnite Ladies at the venue After Dark in Pretoria, and she also acted on television in the Afrikaans series Arende and in the English series Big Time. Then, in the next year, she worked as a television presenter for NNTV, which was then still a subsidiary of the SABC.

The year was 1979 and she recorded her first single Ek loop den Pad (I take on the Road) in 1979 after having been advised to do it by friends. The song quickly gained public and has been popular ever since, being covered by artists such as Laurika Rauch. Strydom has written the majority of the songs on her discography and repertoire and also sings songs from musicians like Koos du Plessis Stef Bos Jose Feliciano, Kris Kristofferson, Holly Cole, and George Gershwin. When she is writing her own music, Strydom generally writes the lyrics on her own but often works with other composers when writing the music. Her musical collaborators include Janine Neethling Didi Kriel Lize Beekman Peter McLea, Siegfried Pretsch and Angerie van Wyk.

Amanda Strydom Net Worth

Amanda Strydom is one of the richest Singer from South Africa. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Amanda Strydom 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Strydom was born in Port Elizabeth where she lived and attended school. She graduated at Framesby High School in 1974. There was no formal musical education during her early years (nor did she ever have any prior training during her lifetime) and she is unable to understand a musical note However, she was active in school choirs and she also studied drama in the Children’s Theatre together with Mari Mocke and Marlene Pieterse. Strydom went on to complete her tertiary studies through Pretoria’s University of Pretoria where she was awarded an Associate of Arts degree in the field of drama.

In 1979 Strydom was hired by The Cape Provincial Arts Board (Capab) which was where she performed in productions for the theatre, including The Wonderwerk (The The Miracle) as well as “Kinkels innie kabel” (Hitches in the Cable). The same year, she began freelance work as a disc jockey, cabaret singer as well as a television presenter and writer following her win of the main role in a motion film of Franz Marx, called Pasgetroud (Just married). In 1980, she was hired as a singer on the television show Musiek en Liriek, together with a group of her coworkers in the Afrikaans music industry. The program would prove to have an impact on the evolution of popular Afrikaans music. It was according to Jannie du Toit, sort that of “belated folk revolution”. Strydom began her work in the field of disc jockey that year on the radio stations Highveld Stereo and Radio 5. She also got the lead role of a female in Potato Eaters which is an English TV drama.

Well established in various industries by 1983, Strydom starred in various plays and television series in the following years. She also released her first Afrikaans LP in 1983, titled Vir my Familie (For my Family), as well as her first English LP in 1985, titled Jupiter Jones is Amanda. One of the roles she created for television was that of a Polish singer called Elzbieta Karski, for John Cundill’s English television series 1922. For her performance she won the Star Tonight award for best English actress in 1985. She also began performing as a solo cabaret artist, at Garbo’s in Cape Town and at Club 58 in Hillbrow.

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Strydom has also branched into singing Latin American music. In Potchefstroom she was featured as the soloist for Ariel Ramírez’s Missa Criola. The work, originally conceived for the tenor voice, proved well-suited to Strydom’s own contralto voice, much the same as it did for the Argentinian singer Mercedes Sosa who recorded it in 1999.

Facts & Trivia

Amanda Ranked on the list of most popular Singer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in South Africa. Amanda Strydom celebrates birthday on July 23 of every year.

Then, in 2003, Strydom conceived a solo performance and CD album in collaboration with Floors Oosthuizen, Janine Neethling and Vinnie Henrico, which they called Verspreide Donderbuie/Scattered Thunder, a project for which Strydom eventually won two Geraasmusiek awards and a SAMA award. She had two further honours in that year: first, she was honoured by her alma mater, the University of Pretoria with their Tuks Alumni Laureate Award, and secondly, she was invited to attend the historic 85th birthday celebrations of Nelson Mandela in Sandton, Johannesburg. The singer also remembered one of her friends, the late Johannes Kerkorrel, by singing in two remembrance concerts. The first was Hommage a Kerkorrel, performed with Stef Bos at the Stadskouburg in Bruges, Belgium. And then she also sang a tribute she had written for Kerkorrel, the moving song Ek het gedroom (I dreamt), in Pretoria’s State Theatre for the Kerkorrel tribute concert Een jaar later (One year later).