Goapele
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Goapele Mohlabane ( ; born July 11, 1977) is an American soul and R&B singer-songwriter. Her name means to move forward in Setswana, a Southern African language.
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1977-07-11
Discography
- Even Closer2002
- First Love2005
- Change It All2005
- Don't Be Shy2008
- Chocolate2008
- Milk & Honey2009
- Make It Thru2009
- Different2010
- Catch 222010
- Victory2010
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Goapele (born Goapele Mohlabane on 11th July 1977 in Oakland, California) is a U.S. soul and R&B singer-songwriter. Her name means "to go forward" in the South African language Sesotho. She was born to a Jewish mother, Noa, and an African father, Douglas Mohlabane, who was a South African political exile. They married in Nairobi, Kenya. Goapele attended the Berkeley Arts Magnet School in Berkeley, California. During these years, she joined several groups that fought racism and sexism. <a href
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- 1999-00-00
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12 sectionsContents
- Early life
- Career
- ''Even Closer''
- ''Change It All''
- ''Break of Dawn''
- ''Victory''
- ''Strong as Glass''
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Goapele Mohlabane ( ; born July 11, 1977) is an American soul and R&B singer-songwriter. Her name means to move forward in Setswana, a Southern African language.
==Early life== Goapele's South African father Douglas Mohlabane was an exiled political activist who struggled against the Apartheid System. Goapele's New York-born Israeli Jewish mother Noa had been attending protests since the age of 12. Noa attended Friends World College and was studying in Nairobi, Kenya, where she met and married Douglas. Goapele and her older brother DJ Namane Mohlabane were raised in a South African exile community in California.