Yolandi Visser

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Yolandi Visser (alternative spelling ¥ o-Landi Vi $$ er ; born March 3, 1984 as Anri du Toit in Port Alfred , South Africa ) is a South African musician and actress . International reputation it gained as part of Watkin Tudor Jones ' rap - Rave - Formation Die Antwoord .

In the early years of her musical career, she was also known under the pseudonym Anica The Snuffling .

Visser in 2010
Yolandi Visser
Yolandi Visser performing with Die Antwoord on October 2, 2009 in Pretoria .
Yolandi Visser performing with Die Antwoord on October 2, 2009 in Pretoria .
Yolandi Visser performing with Die Antwoord on October 2, 2009 in Pretoria .

Career

Musical career

From 2002, Yolandi Visser was part of Watkin Tudor Jones' hip-hop formation The Constructus Corporation , which released the concept album The Ziggurat in June of the same year , which included an 88-page graphic novel . The formation broke up again in 2003. In 2005 she and Jones re-founded his former formation Max Normal as MaxNormal.TV , which existed until 2008. The international breakthrough came with Die Antwoord , which was also founded with Jones in 2008 and writes its lyrics in Afrikaans and English . Both appear in her as a singer and rapper, she under the name Yo-Landi Vi $$ er , Jones as a ninja . After the release of the fifth album The House of Zef (2019), this is to be dissolved, as planned when the group was founded. Jones and Visser's further plans are not known.

Cinematic career

In 2014 she shot the science fiction film Chappie with South African director Neill Blomkamp , in which Watkin Tudor Jones also stars.

Private

Visser lives in a relationship with her artistic companion Watkin Tudor Jones , with whom she has a daughter named Sixteen Jones, who was born in 2006. However, they do not describe themselves as living in a relationship, Jones once described their relationship as an "ultimate best-friends-forever type of thing" (for example: ultimate best friends forever). In 2010, the couple adopted a then nine-year-old street boy known as Tokkie.

Discography

The Constructus Corporation
  • 2002: The Ziggurat
MaxNormal.TV
  • 2007: Rap Made Easy (EP)
  • 2008: Good Morning South Africa
The answer
  • 2009: $ O $
  • 2010: 5 (EP)
  • 2010: Ekstra (EP)
  • 2012: Ten $ Ion
  • 2014: Donker Mag
  • 2016: Suck on This (Mixtape)
  • 2016: Mount Ninji and da Nice Time Kid
  • 2020: House of Zef

Filmography

  • 2004: Family Picnic - Anri du Toit (Yolandi Visser) - before Die Antwoord
  • 2005: Spook Asem - Yolandi Visser short film - before Die Antwoord (By and with the pregnant Yolandi Visser)
  • 2011: Umshini Wam (short film) - main cast
  • 2015: Chappie
  • 2017: Tommy Can't Sleep as the rat girl

Web links

Commons : Yolandi Visser  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Yo-landi Visser: dark star at dazeddigital.com (English), accessed on March 11, 2016
  2. ↑ Michelle Jones: Band have the answer to the secret of success. February 13, 2012, accessed on April 3, 2012 (English): “Ben du Toit, who works as a director of communications for the NG Kerk, has nothing but respect for his daughter, Anri du Toit, who goes by the stage name Yo-Landi Vi $$ er, and son-in-law Watkin Tudor Jones, who goes by the name Ninja. "
  3. ↑ Jimbo Stephens: AKA: The Lives of Waddy Tudor Jones (Part One - Die Vraag) , In: Youtube
  4. ↑ Jimbo Stephens: AKA: The Lives of Waddy Tudor Jones (Part Two - Die Antwoord) , in: Youtube
  5. ^ Die Antwoord's Yolandi Visser and Ninja not married but have a daughter, Sixteen Jones. In: Frostsnow.com. 2017, accessed January 31, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Die Antwoord - House Of Zef. Retrieved April 16, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Visser, Yolandi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vi $$ er, ¥ o-Landi; you Toit, Anri (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African musician, rapper and actress
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Port Alfred , South Africa