Snake Dancer, Glenda Kemp

The notorious 'Snake Dancer' from the 70's, Glenda Kemp, catches up with the team about what she's been doing since her snake dancing days.

 

Glenda Kemp, a renowned stripper and snake dancer from South Africa came from a quiet Afrikaans family in Bloemfontein.

 

She turned her world upside down in the conservative seventies when she began stripping with Oupa, her pet python. Authorities, including the church, did their best to stop her without success… until the Lord stepped into her life.

 

Kemp’s autobiography is based on the premise of a coin – there being two sides to her life the same way there are two sides to a coin.

 

 

 

Glenda Kemp in her prime (top) and Glenda as she is now (bottom).

 

 

Listen to what this icon of the 70's had to say this morning: 

 

 

 

Glenda Kemp on how her Snake Dancing career started, how the snake came to be in all of this and what happened with all the cops 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Glenda Kemp talks about being adored and an icon the people really loved and what she’s learnt from dancing with a the ginormous snake

 

 

 

 

 

Glenda Kemp: Why she continued, questioned on whether what she did was wrong and thoughts on stripping now

 

 

 

 

 

Glenda Kemp and her daughter

 

 

 

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