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Celebs pay tribute to music legend Ollie Viljoen

Cape Town – Celebs and friends have taken to social media to pay tribute to music legend Ollie Viljoen.

Viljoen, 76, died on Sunday morning in his sleep in hospital after being admitted there last week.

Viljoen was a famous accordion player, who received a Sama award for an album with Valiant Swart named Vuur En Vlam in the Best Traditional Afrikaans Album category.

Here are some tributes from Twitter:

















Some also took to Facebook to pay tribute:





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