# Juanita du Plessis

> Juanita du Plessis turned Afrikaans country music into a multi-million-record phenomenon, built on the back of "Ska-Rumba" and a string of hits that made her South Africa's most popular female artist seven years running.

*South African singer*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/juanita-du-plessis

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Singer / Musician ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220))
- **Category:** Musicians
- **Country:** South Africa
- **Born:** 1972-04-26
- **Status:** living
- **Gender:** female

## Bio

Born April 26 in Namibia, du Plessis launched her singing career in 1998 with the album Juanita and swept the Country Music Association awards that year - best singer, best songwriter, outstanding achievement. Her record sales climbed past 3,000,000. In 2010 she won a South African Music Award for her 10 Year Hit Celebration DVD, a collection of the decade's biggest tracks. The Huisgenoot Tempo Awards crowned her most popular female artist from 2005 through 2011. By 2018, twenty years in, she released 20 Jaar - Treffers van 2008-2018, a greatest hits spanning the second decade of a career that made Afrikaans country a commercial force.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 67.1 / 100
- **Momentum:** 2.3 / 100  (trend: STABLE)
- **Historical depth:** 12.1 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 8.4 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 85.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 75.0 / 100
- **Total followers across platforms:** 215,000

## Platforms
- **X**: https://x.com/jduplessis (@jduplessis)
- **FACEBOOK**: https://www.facebook.com/juanitaduplessis.page (@juanitaduplessis.page)
- **SPOTIFY**: https://open.spotify.com/artist/7dtmhKnycd3REPNNixXGHO (@7dtmhKnycd3REPNNixXGHO)
- **WEBSITE**: https://juanitaduplessis.co.za/
- **YOUTUBE**: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeImqU_zOlDu_nXpOAPo2kg (@@juanitaduplessis, 215,000 followers)

## Sources
- [Discogs](https://www.discogs.com/artist/4742675)
- [Juanita du Plessis](https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juanita_du_Plessis)
- [خوانيتا دو بليسيس](https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AE%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%A7_%D8%AF%D9%88_%D8%A8%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B3)
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- [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Juanita_du_Plessis)
- [MusicBrainz](https://musicbrainz.org/artist/2a20116e-c1d9-412f-a985-0239c4d3e24b)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q445599)

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