Juanita du Plessis

One of the most successful recording artists in Africa since she emerged in the late '90s, Afrikaans singer Juanita du Plessis has gone platinum many times over in her adopted home of South Africa and native Namibia with her agreeable mix of adult-contemporary pop, gospel music, country-pop, and dance tunes. Her 1998 debut album, the country-inflected Juanita (aka Young Hearts or The Debut Album), was a critical and commercial hit, eventually becoming her first of over a dozen consecutive albums to go platinum. She had a best-selling single with the dance-pop anthem "Ska-Rumba...