
Photo: Cristina Danneels · CC BY 3.0 · credits
Cristina Boshoff
Person · female · South Africa · Stellenbosch · born 1980
South African pianist and singer-songwriter
Timeline
1980s
Biography
Biography
Katarina Boshoff (born 8 October 1980 as Katarina Cristina Boshoff) is a South African folk pop singer and pianist based in Cape Town.
Boshoff was born in Stellenbosch, and holds dual citizenship in South Africa and Spain. She began playing piano at the age of 12, and received her first recording contract at the age of 18. Katarina is partly South African, partly Dutch.
Music
Boshoff released her debut single, "I'm only human" in 1999. The single topped the South African National Campus Charts. It spent 9 weeks on the South African National Top 40 Charts, where it peaked at the number six position. In 2000 she followed the single with her debut album, This is me.
Studio albums
This is me (2000)
Fire & Ice (2014)
Me and Missy D. (2015)
Singles
"I'm only human" (1999)
"You're my shoulder" (2000)
"I feel like a wreck" (2003)
"Try" (2010)
"A Rainy Day" (2014)
"Tears of an Angel" (2014)
"Why" (2014)
"I dare you" (2015)
"Gonna be with you" (2015)
"Dreams" (2014)
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 5 | 32th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 1 | 40.6th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (0 release groups)
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Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Cristina Boshoff head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 5 | 32th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 1 | 40.6th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Awards & honours
Where this record comes from
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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cristina_Boshoff.jpgcore—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
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https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18719311seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristina_Boshoffbiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristina_Boshoff
Why this artist is in the database
- List of singer-songwriters
- List of South African musicians
Tier rule: curated genre/region list
Image: Cristina Danneels · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata: Q18719311 · MusicBrainz: —
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