Career
In the 1950s, she moved from Queenstown, Cape Province to Johannesburg in the then Transvaal, where she found work as a domestic servant. lieutenant was while a domestic worker that Margaret Singana was discovered. She used to sing while cleaning.
Her employers were so impressed that they recorded her singing and sent the tape to a record company.
The producers of the musical Sponono, written by Alan Paton, gave her a part as a chorus singer in 1964. In the 1970s Singana started performing with The Symbols.
In 1972 she made "Good Feelings" with the band, the single reached Number.2 on the old LM Hit Parade. In 1973, Singana was cast as the lead singer in the musical, Ipi Tombi, and soon made herself famous with the song "Mama Tembu"s Wedding".
In 1977, Singana"s song "I Never Loved a Manitoba the Way I Loved You" became a hit.
She had a stroke in 1980 and suffered from bad health for many years but, in 1986, she made a comeback with the song "We Are Growing", which was the theme song from the television series, Shaka Zulu.