Juanita du Plessis

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
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Birthday
Apr 26, 1972 (53 years old)

Juanita du Plessis

Known For

Krone 2024
2h 0m
Movie 2024

Krone 2024

A massive sing-a-long party with live music at Loftus Versveld in Pretoria.

Kersvreugde met kykNET
1h 10m
Movie 2023

Kersvreugde met kykNET

Famous artists bring Christmas songs to our living rooms. A production full of joy and precious moments of being together for the whole family.

Krone 5
2h 28m
Movie 2018

Krone 5

Massive sing-a-long live show with some of South Africa's top Afrikaans singers.

Country Hart met Juanita
TV Show 2013

Country Hart met Juanita

Country Hart met Juanita is a road trip through the Southern States in search of the various identities and influences of country music. The 13 part series journeys through the country music capitals of the United States of America from backwater mountain music gigs in the Appalachians, Texan rodeos and Baptist Revivals in the Bible belt as Juanita discovers the sounds and roots of Country music, in most of its subgenres.

Biography

The brightest star on the South African music scene is our very own Platinum princess, Juanita du Plessis. She has long been crowned as our country's top African female artist and she is not going to relinquish her crown anytime soon. Juanita's illustrious career kicked off in 1998 with her debut album "Juanita". In the same year she won several awards and it was already clear then that Juanita's songs work! After many prayers and waiting, her second album "Ek en jy" appears, Ska-Rumba was the bonus track. A success story with many milestones is being written. A bunch of brilliant, successful albums see the light and in 2003 Juanita becomes the first Afrikaans singer to reach the no. 1 position on RSG's official Top 20 hit parade and stay at the top for three weeks in a row! (The hit parade includes best sellers in SA - local and international albums). In the next five years, the girl from Suidwes' life changes drastically. In the meantime, the Du Plessis family left their native Namibia and Gobabis (their hometown for 5 years - at that time) behind and settled in Pretoria. More albums see the light and Juanita once again rewrites the record books when her overall sales figure in 2010 reaches the 1.6 million mark. Her second Gospel album, "Vlieg Hoog" (2007), was named the Top Afrikaans Gospel seller of all time. In 2012, Juanita achieved a milestone that she could never have imagined for herself. She becomes the first artist in African history to sell 2,000,000 albums in South Africa. Her sales are currently over 2.5 million. Juanita du Plessis' career speaks of illustrious achievements, precious milestones, humility and dedication, and the awards to her credit surpass those of most artists in South Africa.