South African singer Zahara, who rose from an impoverished rural background to find rapid fame with multi-platinum selling albums and delivered her unique version of wistful Afro-soul in her country’s isiXhosa language and in English, has died, her family said Tuesday. She was 36.

Zahara, whose real name was Bulelwa Mkutukana, died Monday, her family said in a statement posted on her official page on X,…