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Lebo is a poet, performer, actress, presenter and producer. She is the daughter of exiled South Africans and was born in the U.S. in 1979. At the age of sixteen she and her family returned to their home country. It was while she was studying law and international relations at Wits University in Johannesburg that the desire to work as an artist took hold of her.
Lebo began to achieve recognition as one of South Africa's most popular young artists in 2002 when her hip-hop inspired poetry started to capture a large audience.
In 2003 she co-founded the "Feel a Sistah!" Spoken Word Collective alongside Myesha Jenkins, Ntsiki Mazwai and Napo Masheane, which rapidly gained widespread popularity. Just one year later Mashile made her acting debut in the Oscar nominated film "Hotel Rwanda" and performed at the inauguration of former president Thabo Mbeki.
Her lyrical and gutsy poems in the collection "A Ribbon of Rhythm" (2005) speak about life in the new South Africa. Lebo's self-produced album "Lebo Mashile Live!" combines her performance poetry with hip-hop, house and R&B.
In 2006 she was awarded the prestigious Noma Award for Publishing in Africa, the premier prize for literature from the African continent.
In June 2008, Mashile published her second anthology entitled "Flying Above the Sky".
Lebo is also an ambassador for the Film and Publication Board's "Say NO to Child Pornography" Campaign alongside songstress Yvonne Chaka Chaka and actor Meshack Mavuso.
Lebo has written extensively for newspapers and magazines and as an artist and personality, has featured on numerous covers of South African entertainment and lifestyle magazines.
She was voted one of South Africa's Awesome Women of 2005 by Cosmopolitan Magazine. In 2006, 2007 and 2009 she was named one of the Top 100 youth in South Africa by the Mail & Guardian. At the end of 2006, Lebo was named the top personality in television by The Star in their annual Top 100 list. She was named the Woman of the Year for 2010 in the category of Arts and Culture by Glamour magazine.
She has appeared beyond South Africa, to date in Kenya, Austria, Germany, Cuba, Jamaica, Ireland, Zimbabwe, the United States, Swaziland, Lesotho Botswana, Britain, Mozambique, Algeria, Malawi and Switzerland.
Lebo recently gave birth to her son Moya and in May this year, joined the Great Expectations' team, sharing her passion for parenting with her viewers.
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