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Musical artist

Sonja Herholdt (born 1 December 1952) is a South African singer-songwriter and Afrikaner actress.

Personal life

Herholdt was born in the small Gauteng mining village of Nigel and at the age of three made her first singing performance at the local community recreation hall, singing the Afrikaans lullaby Slaap, my Kindjie.

She attended the Afrikaans-medium Tini Vorster Primary and Hoërskool John Vorster where she became Head Girl in both and followed her theatrical pursuits.^[1]

She later obtained a diploma cum laude in Teaching after three years at the Johannesburg (Goudstad) College of Education.

She gave up teaching to pursue music after meeting her future husband, FC Hamman.^[2] The couple married in 1976 and started a family, their youngest son later developed an extreme hearing impairment in 1993. Herholdt subsequently decided to start a school for hearing and linguistically impaired Afrikaans children, this was h