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  "name": "Brenda Fassie",
  "description": "Brenda Fassie appears once in our Kwaito list, placing as high as No. 4. Hand-curated, with a reason for every pick.",
  "updated": "2026-08-29",
  "url": "https://waxonia.com/artist/brenda-fassie/",
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    "first": 1997,
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  },
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      "trackKey": "brenda-fassie--vulindlela",
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      "title": "Vulindlela",
      "year": 1997,
      "label": null,
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "Not strictly kwaito and impossible to leave out. Fassie was already a star when the genre arrived, and she absorbed it into the biggest South African record of the decade.",
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        },
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}