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1. Oh my Zeus, this dude is dead. - See, Happy Hours & YouTubes teach tons.
Fri Nov 21, 2025, 11:37 PM
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From AI:
"In 2000, his first album, Vreemde Stad, was released. It became his well known work. In September 2020, Jordaan was diagnosed with leukaemia. He died in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape from the disease on 17 November 2021, aged 50."


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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theuns_Jordaan
Theuns Jordaan (10 January 1971 – 17 November 2021) was a South African singer-songwriter.

Biography
Jordaan was born on 10 January 1971 on a Karoo farm near Venterstad in the Eastern Cape. While studying industrial psychology at the University of Stellenbosch, he had his first performance on 21 October 1992 at a local bar called The Terrace.[1] He started composing his own lyrics, resulting in five songs of his debut album, Vreemde Stad. Theuns attended Volkskool High School in Graaff-Reinet in the Eastern Cape. While at school, Std 9 and matric he played music and sang to local patrons at a pizza restaurant/ pub called Trail in. ....

Personal life
Jordaan is said to have a daughter, born in 2009, who'm he found out about months after the birth, and the mother is a Namibian woman.

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