Reggae-rapper dies in car crash
Rapper and actress Natasja was killed in an auto accident this weekend in Jamaica
One of Denmark's biggest musical profiles, Natasja Saad, was killed in a one-car accident outside Kingston, Jamaica on Sunday.
Known simply as Natasja, or 'Little T', the 32-year-old rap artist was the only fatality of five passengers in the car, according to Kingston police. Two others are in critical condition, one of them, Karen Mukupa, was Natasja's close friend and former performing partner.
The daughter of a Danish mother and Sudanese father, Natasja began singing and DJ-ing at 13. She became popular in the 1990's as one-half of 'Non Name Requested' with Mukupa.
The group's performance of 'Raggamuffin' - reggae-influenced rap - was considered to be pioneering, especially in a genre almost exclusively dominated by men.
No Name Requested split up in the late 1990s, but Natasja continued to perform solo and joined the likes of UB40 and other big names on stage. She was offered several record contracts from American labels, but was legally bound to her Danish record company.
In recent years, Natasja composed music for the film 'Fidibus' and performed as an actress at the Betty Nansen Theatre's presentation of 'Købmanden', an adaptation of Shakespeare's 'Merchant of Venice'.
Hundreds of fans gathered Sunday in Copenhagen's Islands Brygge neighborhood - where Natasja grew up - at a spontaneous memorial for the late singer.