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Sonja Herholdt
Musical artist
Sonja Herholdt (born 1 December ) is a South African singer-songwriter and Afrikaner actress.
Pearls sonja herholdt biography
Personal life
Herholdt was born in the small Gauteng mining village of Nigel and at the age of three made her first singing performance at the local community recreation hall, singing the Afrikaans lullaby Slaap, my Kindjie.
She attended the Afrikaans-medium Tini Vorster Primary and Hoërskool John Vorster where she became Head Girl in both and followed her theatrical pursuits.[1]
She later obtained a diploma cum laude in Teaching after three years at the Johannesburg (Goudstad) College of Education.
She gave up teaching to pursue music after meeting her future husband, FC Hamman.[2] The couple married in and started a family, their youngest son later developed an extreme hearing impairment in Herholdt subsequently decided to start a school for hearing and linguistically impaired Afrikaans children, this was housed in the pr