 While still a teenager she toured with the musical "King Kong" — but left for the United States in 1965 due to Apartheid.In New York City she connected with other South African exiles, including Miriam Makeba, Hugh Masekela and Jonas Gwangwa, and went on to work with Cannonball Adderley, David Axelrod and Harry Belafonte.On screen, her singing can also be heard in "Roots", "The Color Purple" (1985), and the 1973 film "A Warm December", and she was a guest on a Season 6 episode of "Soul Train".