Thembi Mtshali Biography: Age, Husband, Children, Louisville Honorary Citizenship, TV shows, Movies, Songs, Albums, Awards, Nominations, Net worth,

Thembi Mtshali Biography

Profile Summary

Full name Name: Thembi Mtshali-Jones

Birthday: 7 November 1950

Birth Place: KwaMashu, Durban

Current age as of 2020: 70 years

Profession: Singer, Play writer, Actress

Net Worth:  $ 1.3 million

The beginning

As a youngster, no captivating environs are vast enough for her destiny. Her mother’s hopes for Thembi are for her to become a nurse and marry a man who adores her. Life takes a turn for the worst and the actress falls pregnant and has to drop out of school. She is also compelled to leave her baby to tend to another person’s in order to afford raising hers. Refusing to call see her life spiralling into nothing she joins the entertainment industry playing a domestic worker.

How does Thembi Mtshali rise to fame?

The show she joins thrives and as much as blacks are ill-treated back then, Thembi still pushes on. She goes to the UK to perform the show and the odds are in her favour. The musical profits multiply and the show airs on TV. This sees her meeting the famous South African unsurpassed diva, Miriam Makeba who hires her as her backup singer. Her flair gives her the opportunity to welcome President Nelson Mandela back to freedom.

Thembi Mtshali is a renowned South African actress currently playing MaNdlovu on etv’s Imbewu. The epitome of black doesn’t crack, she features with younger actresses in Bona Magazine’s issue acknowledging female actresses killing it. She is one beautiful melanin queen who has the flair to go with it. Thembi Mtshali Biography (Age, Husband, Children, TV shows, Movies, Awards, Net worth and more) reveal all about the icon’s life.

Thembi Mtshali’s music career

The veteran singer’s albums are all recorded under her name. In her celestial voice, Thembi sings Happy Birthday using her Zulu tongue for President Nelson Mandela, in Washington DC.

Albums

• Today Tomorrow is released in 1990 with 10 tracks
• Bayabizana is released in 2016 and has 12 songs in it.Songs
  1. Uthini Na
  2. Im an African
  3. Baba
  4. Mnumzane
  5. Yakhala Inkomo
  6. Sasi Busa
  7. Mpumalanga
  8. Nganzeni
  9. Suk’emvakwami
  10. Uthini Na
  11. Just Be Yourself
  12. Hleziphi

  Awards and Nominations

  

  1. She bags a Living Legend Award from the KwaZulu Natal Province and in the city of Durban.
  2. The actress is a finalist in the 2002 Tribute Achievers award.
  3. In 2004, Stokvel, a sitcom in which she has stars in, is nominated for an international Emmy.
  4. Two years later, she is a nominee for the Golden Horn award for the best-supporting actress in a TV comedy.
  5. In 2010, she is nominated for the Golden Horn award for the Best Actress in a TV comedy.
  6. Thembi receives a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009 and 2015, presented by Culture Trust and City of Durban.

  Thembi Mtshali bags honorary citizenship.

  

  Proving she has all it takes to be a star, the actress gets an honorary citizenship from the mayor of Louisville. The Kentucky Senate accords her a speech purposely thanking her while making her an Honorary Kentucky Colonel. This is the uppermost level of nobility conferred to a non-military individual by the Kentucky Governor.

  Who is Thembi Mtshali’s husband?

  

  The actress’s family extends to four generations and unfortunately, her husband is no longer around to see more generations. Her late husband, known publicly as Mr Jones an accomplished singer, meets the actress at backstage in “A Woman in Waiting.” As they say, the rest is history.”Joe was very supportive and kept checking on me and the kids. That’s why I was deeply hurt by his death. I asked myself what’s happening to me. I mean my pillars of strength have gone.”

  

  Which TV shows has Thembi Mtshali Featured in?

  1. 90 Plein Street
  2. Broken Vows
  3. Fishy Fêshuns
  4. Forced Love
  5. Home Affairs
  6. I Love South Africa
  7. Imbewu: The Seed
  8. League of Glory
  9. Madam & Eve