Thandi Klaasen
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Thandi Klaasen is a jazz musician from Sophiatown, Gauteng. Her career as a singer and dancer began in the mid-1950s. In 1961 she moved to London to work in the musical King Kong. She has since performed with Dolly Rathebe, Miriam Makeba, Dorothy Masuka, and others.
When she was a teenager, her face was permanently scarred by a mix of thinners and petroleum. She is the mother of singer Lorraine Klaasen.
