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Sonja Herholdt is an Afrikaner singer-songwriter and actress. ==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 Tienie Vorster Primary and John Vorster High School where she became Head Girl in both and followed her theatrical pursuits.〔(Ms Sonja HERHOLDT ) Who's Who.〕 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. The couple married in 1976 and started a family, their youngest son later developed an extreme hearing impairment in 1993. Herholdt subsequently decided to start a school for hearing and linguistically impaired Afrikaans children, this was housed in the pre-primary section of Bryanston Primary School. This resulted in Herholdt returning to teach for a period of time. In 1996, Herholdt was involved in a serious car accident. She and her husband subsequently divorced after 21 years of marriage.〔 In collaboration with Carel Cronjé, she released her autobiography in 2007 ''Sonja: Meisie van Nigel''. Later that year she was injured in a robbery on the way home from Cronjé's Johannesburg home.〔(SA singer attacked on Xmas ) News24. 27 December 2007〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sonja Herholdt」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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