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Virginia LeeSouth Africa's Singing Sweetheart, The Girl with the Golden Voice, South Africa's Queen of Song, South Africa's female Jim Reeves and South Africa's First Lady of Song. These were titles bestowed on Virginia Lee.

"Ginny" as she was affectionately known, was South Africa's best selling female recording artist of the late Fifties, Sixties and early Seventies.She was the first South African female vocalist to receive a gold disc, for the equivalent of a million sales for her hit "Goodbye My Love".

She followed that up with a second gold disc only seven months later for "Darling It's Wonderful".Virginia Lee was born on June 27, 1927 in Port Elizabeth and grew up there. She did her schooling at North End Grey, Port Elizabeth and the famous Victoria Girls High, Grahamstown.

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At school she took a keen interest in athletics and excelled in swimming and diving.She married Johnny Lee in 1948. In 1949, her only daughter, Peggy (later Koopman), was born. After nine years, she and