Shekhinah

South African singer-songwriter · South Africa · Musicians · Born 1994 · age 32

Shekhinah is read about 39 times a day, in 5 languages.

A typical day, 30 days to 17 October 2026

The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 392 days, one point a day.

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Two runs at SA Idols - Top 32, then Top 6 a year later - before the real breakthrough came five years on with an album that went multi-platinum and spun three number-ones in a row.

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Awards

OkayAfrica 100 Women2019

About this person

Shekhinah Thandi Donnell appeared twice on M-Net's SA Idols, reaching the Top 32 in 2011's seventh season and climbing to the Top 6 in 2012's eighth. The televised runs didn't win her the title, but they set the stage. In 2017 she released Rose Gold, her debut studio album, which became her best-selling work and earned multi-platinum certification from RiSA on the strength of three consecutive number-one singles: "Suited", "Please Mr.", and "Different". Four years later her second album, Trouble In Paradise, arrived and was certified gold. The arc bent from reality-show contender to chart fixture, the kind of trajectory that takes patience and then pays in full.

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South Africa