The middle sibling of 5, Wendy came into this world in 1964, in Pinelands, Cape Town. She was schooled in Johannesburg for her primary school years and then finished high school back in Cape Town; she then went on to get her Higher Diploma.  Wendy first made a name for herself on radio performing the hit This Boy with rock outfit The Sweatband in the early eighties. After much success with songs like Tonight, Shape of Her Body, This Boy and years of touring and performing, she left the group to start her solo career.



Her first solo album Beautiful World set the wheels in motion for a succession of hits, including Real World, Acid Rain, Miracle and Don't Stop Believing. Wendy's vocal performance on the album won her the Octave Award (1992) for Best Female Vocalist and a nomination for Song of the Year (Miracle).
She branched out into other areas of composition and arrangement, writing soundtracks for commercials, film and television, and was nominated for an M-Net film score award in 1995. Wendy wrote soundtracks for Leon Schuster's Sweet and Short and There's a Zulu on my Stoep. Her song Acid Rain was chosen as the theme song for a 180 part series Nature on Track which has been played all over the world.


Tonight she deserves a spot in Rhythm Resurrection with her new song - New Dress

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