Phumi Maduna is the last born from 7children (5boys & 2girls) of Mr & Mrs Maduna. She lost her dad while still in high school in New Castle, later lost her only sister and 2 of her brothers…Her mother who was a teacher at Matseke high school passed away in 2008 February, wanted the best for her daughter and singing was not what her mom expected of her, though she supported her. And because Phumi had passion for music, she wanted her family to believe music was not bad after all. She started singing at school concerts in New –Castle, (RSA) where her parents originally come from. Phumi joined Sam Mhangwana’s stage play called Mother-inlaw ,unfaithful woman and Thembi, just to keep herself busy then, Phumi Maduna and Brenda Fassie later joined Gibson Kente’s musical play ‘HUNGRY SPOON for 2years,later they joined the band Amakhowa(The mushrooms).They went their separate ways to pursue their solo careers, Phumi joined Soul Brothers as a curtain raiser,& later joined the group JAWS. Phumi met the late Madoda Malotana @ Satbel recording studio sessioning voices for the late Margaret Singana’s album Isiphiwo Sam. Madoda & Phumi started rehearsing together forming a group Cheek to Cheek, in 1984 they realeased their debut album” SO GOOD SO NICE” which sold thousands of copies making them the best selling group at the time. The album was released under CCP Records which was produced by Mally Watson, 1985-ONE MORE TRY, 1988-CANT BUY LOVE, 1989-RE- UNITED, hit the shelves. She released a solo album as Phumi Maduna with CCP called BAD GUY which sold thousands of copies.

In 1990 Cheek to Cheek came up with “ITS BEEN A LONG TIME” still under CCP. In 1992 Cheek to Cheek left CCP for Gallo Records and released another hit album LET ME LIVE MY LIFE, while still with Gallo Phumi joined Lucky Dube as a back-up singer & toured the USA with him. She was inspired by Lucky Dube and Richard Siluma to do her 1st reggae album in 1991 called SUBSTITUTE which was written and produced by Lucky Dube, Richard Siluma and the Slaves, followed by ‘SWEETER THAN EVER’ produced by Chris Ntaka (from Malawi) then ‘STYLE AND FASHION’ produced by Eugene Mthethwa of the Trompies fame. She became extremely passionate about reggae & the more she performed with Lucky Dube the more her love grew for reggae. Her reggae albums made a huge following overseas and African Countries. She then toured the USA, JAPAN, AUSTRALIA, the FIJI ISLANDS, BOTSWANA, ZAMBIA, ZIMBABWE & NAMIBIA ETC. She took a break from recording,although she was still performin at some venues. She landed a contract with furniture stores doing promotions for the entire South Africa managed by Mara Vanderberg & Lance James In 2002 Phumi came back with a thrilling album simply titled ‘STOCK TAKING’. The ten track album was a cross over between POP, KWAITO and TRADITIONAL. 2004 she came up with a very, very hot jazz album which was a surprise to her loyal fans, the woman is versatile indeed. The beautiful album ‘DINAKA LE MEROPA,’ featuring hit songs like CHISKOP TAMATIE, LOTTO, BHUTI & WOZA 2010 which attracted SAFA to book her for a performance during SOUTH AFRICA against NIGERIA soccer match in November 2004 together with the group Malaika. She left for Uganda for the PAM AWARDS as a guest performer same year 2004.The album was produced by Tom Vuma. Apart from helping up and coming artists to follow their dreams .Phumi was also busy with her other talents, she has just finished shooting a Nigerian movie SHADOWS OF DEATH..