Nkululeko flabba habedi biography

Nkululeko Habedi, better known by his stage name Flabba, died seven years ago after his then-girlfriend Sindisiwe Manqele stabbed him to death.
1977-2015: Nkululeko Habedi, better known as Flabba, who has died at the age of 37, was one of South Africa's best-known rappers.
In March 2015, Nkululeko Habedi known as "Flabba", died after being stabbed by his girlfriend Sindisiwe Manqele, who is currently serving her sentence for.

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Obituary: Nkululeko 'Flabba' Habedi, rapper who found art in the ghetto

1977-2015: Nkululeko Habedi, better known as Flabba, who has died at the age of 37, was one of South Africa's best-known rappers.

He was fatally stabbed, allegedly by a girlfriend, Sindisiwe Precious Manqele, last Sunday.

Born in Soweto on October 17 1977, he moved to Alexandra township with his family when he was 10.

At the time it was an almost permanent war zone as political factions fought each other and the apartheid security forces.

Life for those in the middle, such as the Habedi family, was about as rough, raw, dangerous and close to the poverty line as it could be.

Flabba was luckier than most, however. He had the confidence-boosting support of a loving, happy, proud family, including a stepfather he looked up to and with whom he was close, which provided a relatively stable domestic environment.

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It didn't take long for him to show signs of a fairly unusual intellectual curiosity. He got the name Flabba when his grandmother gave him a clip about the ear and told him she

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Flabba: crazy, gifted, loving

NKULULEKO Habedi was born on October 17 1977 at Nkandla, KwaZulu-Natal, where his mother Pearl Habedi, lived until 1978.

Habedi, 38, who was popularly known as Flabba, was allegedly stabbed to death by his girlfriend allegedly following a quarrel at his Alexandra, Johannesburg, home on Monday.

His girlfriend, Sindisiwe Manqele, 26, appeared briefly in the Alexandra Magistrate's Court on Wednesday.

Habedi spent some of his childhood in Orlando, Soweto, and later moved to Alexandra to live with his parents. He had two brothers, with only one surviving after the eldest died in 1994.

Habedi gave himself the stage name Flabba after he heard his grandmother utter the word, flabbergasted, when he was a small boy. Later, when he sussed out the meaning, he decided to have it as a name to go by in his his daily life.

Before that he was known as Hound, a name he used while he was part of a duo, together with Skwatta Kamp member Nish. The two attended John Orr Technical High School.

Skwatta Kamp was a collective of different small hip-hop groups, found

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Errol Holt

This article is about Errol Holt. For the South African rapper with the same nickname, see Nkululeko Habedi.

Musical artist

Errol Holt (born 19 July 1950), also known as Errol Carter and by his nickname Flabba, is a Jamaicanbass guitar player and a singer who was a member of The Morwells and the Roots Radics and has played on hundreds of Jamaican albums.

Biography

Holt's career began in the early 1970s when he worked as a session musician backing artists including Don Carlos and Prince Far I.^[1] He also had a sound system hit in his own name with "A You Lick Me First" in 1976.^[1]^[2] In 1976 he joined The Morwells, and later formed (along with guitarist Eric "Bingy Bunny" Lamont) the Roots Radics Band, with whom he recorded the backing music for myriad reggae singers and vocal groups in the late 1970s and 80s.^[1] In the 1990s he recorded with Israel Vibration, Mikey Dread, Sugar Minott, Mutabaruka, Bunny Wailer, and Yami Bolo.^[1] He also worked as a producer, producing records by Jah Stitch, Dennis B