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ARTIST PROFILE W H O I S W H O. . . ? BACKGROUND Phuluwa zwonaka Christinah known by her stage name Yapie is the second born of Mr Tendani Phuluwa and Lufuno Nembilwi.she was born in 1993 April 19 and raised at Vondwe village located in Venda,Limpopo. She started her R grade in Millinium college Madiba park in Polokwane in 1999 then moved to Gooldville mission school in Venda ‘2001' where she completed her standard 5(grade 7). In 2007,she started her standard 6 (grade 8) at Tshivhase secondary school up until she matriculated in 2011.She moved to Pretoria in 2012 where she then furthered her tertiary levels studying Mechanical Engineering (from N3-N6)until 2015.In 2015 sh