As a young girl, she lived in the working class suburb of La Rochelle with her mother, stepfather, and younger brother.
Kemp was adopted by Tannie and Oom Baumbach into their Christian home in the small farming town of Swartruggens.
I lived for the music and the words and wanted to share this with whoever was looking at me...the main reason I took more dancing work was because of the satisfaction it was giving me in escaping my circumstances."
Faced with barricades of Christian wives on one side and loyal fans and liberals on the other, she never gave up, but continued to provoke the attention of the public.
"Dirk de Villiers made Snake Dancer, giving Kemp the opportunity to tell her story in a full-length movie.
She returned to the Christian faith of her early teen years, and began a lay ministry to children and to the vulnerable people of society including prostitutes and drug addicts.