Background
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.
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 Tienie Vorster Primary and John Vorster High School where she became Head Girl in both and followed her theatrical pursuits.
Her breakthrough came when she did a spot on Gwynneth Ashley Robin"s show and was soon asked to record Ek Verlang Na Jou. The single went gold in South Africa, selling over 25 000 copies. Her subsequent albums and singles earned her similar critical and commercial success.
In the 1970s and 1980s, she was frequently the best-selling female artist in South Africa.
In 1979, she finally fulfilled her ambition to act by starring in Sing vir die Harlekyn, and winning a Rapport Oscar-Award as Best Female Newcomer. She later enjoyed music success in Europe, she holds the distinction of being the first ever South African singer to be invited to perform in the Netherlands on their local Television.
She recorded her song Oberammergau in Dutch and it became a hit in the Dutch charts. (Dutch title and chart?) She also performed in Belgium, pushing Oberammergau into fifth place in the Belgian charts.
In 1989, she performed at the Religious Broadcasting Corporation in Washington, coinciding with the release of her gospel album, The Warrior is a Child.
In 1995, she signed an album contract with BMG Records, enjoying success with the title track of her new BMG compilation, Skipskop. Her 1998 album Ritsel in die Riebtos did not meet critical and commercial expectations. But she rebounded with the critically acclaimed 2000 album, Reconstructing Alice.
In 2002 she developed her own record company, Son Music and released, a nostalgic retrospective of her original hits.