Welcome Duru
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Born1933
Died2009 (aged 75–76)
Occupationactor . boxing promoter . composer . musician . politician
Children2
Welcome Duru | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1933 |
| Died | 2009 (aged 75–76) |
| Occupation | actor . boxing promoter . composer . musician . politician |
| Children | 2 |
Welcome Duru (1933–2009) was a South African actor, boxing promoter, composer, musician, politician and a socialite, also known as Bra Wel.
Duru was born in Korsten (Port Elizabeth), South Africa, but due to forced removals grew up in the black African township of New Brighton. In 1952 he started an a cappella group called The Basin Blues, which was the first black African group in Port Elizabeth to record a song in a studio.
In 1958 Duru married Dolly Rathebe, one of South Africa's established blues singers and beauty queen of the 1950s. The couple had two children before their marriage was dissolved after four years.
