South Africa-based platinum-selling singer/songwriter and producer whose latest single was released in February as well as an official music video for it. He will be touring extensively in Europe in late October and most of November, doing 16 dates in nine different countries. He has also performed here in the U.S. as well as in Thailand. His third album, released in 2019, earned two South African Music Awards and he had made history in 2013 as the first debut to enter the South Africa iTunes album chart at #1. He has close to half-a-million monthly listeners on Spotify, where his top five songs alone have combined for over 102 million streams. Plus, the videos on his YouTube channel have a combined total of almost 69 million views.
“There was a label based in France that wanted to release the song, but as a new version … They just wanted there to be a new take on the song. They were able to then have the freedom to release it worldwide. And I'm grateful they did because they did a good job on it.”
“Art, I don't think is ever fully finished to the person that created it. But you just need to put it out there.”
“All I really knew at the time was I had a guitar and I had access to one of my parents’ computers. And I somehow was able to figure out how to start putting music together myself.”
“I still do a lot of writing alone. Most of it I do alone just because there's certain things that I want to keep learning to trust about the creative process and the way that I work.”
“When I get to see people in real life and perform the songs there is this feeling of hope and upliftment and it might have something to do with the fact that I do enjoy writing songs that sound hopeful and joyful.”
“That creation process, for me, it's something that when I'm a lot older one day I'll be able to look back on and remember how amazing and how grateful I was for the times when I got to record and create music and call that my job. It sounds like such a cheat code.”
“I love that now you can release a song, and it can immediately be available to someone that's never heard of me before that lives on the complete other side of the world.”
“(London) does feel like a second home and the fact that music plays a part in that, it's crazy, it's so crazy to me. I never would have imagined that when I started writing songs more than 10 years ago.”
“That's why I started writing music in the first place was to connect with people and help people feel heard and help people feel some form of hope.”
“I've had the privilege of working with amazing labels, record labels, and partners in the industry that have done so much to help me, and they really have been amazing. I've had a really positive experience with record labels. But at the same time, I have always wanted to be an independent artist.”
“It sounds so cheesy and cliché but try and be as much of yourself as possible… as long as you try and hold on to and keep as much of yourself as possible, that's what's going to connect with people.”
“Take Yours”
“In My Head”