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Yolandi Visser
South African singer/rapper
Musical artist
Anri du Toit (born December 1, ), known professionally as Yolandi Visser (stylised as ¥o-Landi Vi$$er),[2] is a South African singer, rapper, and songwriter. She is one of two vocalists in the alternative hip-hop group Die Antwoord, along with Watkin Tudor Jones.
Visser appeared in the Neill Blomkamp film Chappie.[3]
Early life
Anri du Toit was born on December 1, in Port Alfred, South Africa. She was adopted by clergymanReverend Ben du Toit and his wife, and had an adoptive older brother, Leon (d. ).[4] Growing up, she has said she felt like she did not fit in or belong anywhere, and describes herself as 'a little punk' who frequently got into fistfights, and listened to the music of Nirvana, PJ Harvey, Nine Inch Nails, Cypress Hill, Eminem, Marilyn Manson and Aphex Twin.[5][6] At the age of 16, du Toit was sent to Pretoria to attend Die Hoërskool Menlopark, a boarding school which was nine hours away from her family's home.
Du Toit said that she blossomed among other creative and artistic-minded people while there.[5]
Du Toit does not know much about her biological parents, and questioned her ethnicity after a portrait artist specializing in identifying genetic history told her she has a facial structure similar to coloureds.
Visser initially thought she was white, but now thinks that because she was born during apartheid, her white mother’s parents may have forced her to give her baby up for adoption, after getting pregnant by a black man.[6]
Career
The Constructus Corporation
Main article: The Constructus Corporation
Du Toit was asked by Watkin Tudor Jones (aka "Ninja") to lend vocals for his project The Constructus Corporation.[5] She was credited as Anica the Snuffling.[7] The band released their debut and only album The Ziggurat in [8]
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Du Toit was a member of the South African 'corporate' hip-hop group , in which she played the role of Max Normal's personal assistant.
Die Antwoord - Wikipedia Archived from the original on 2 August Archived from the original on 30 March Wikimedia Commons Wikidata item. Retrieved 10 FebruaryIn , she went by the stage name Yolandi Visser.
In the song "Tik Tik Tik", du Toit's fictional backstory is detailed. The song claims that she was born into poverty in a large family, and eventually ran away out of boredom and loneliness. In "Option A", she meets a drug dealer, and eventually begins working for him, transporting drugs in exchange for food and money.
She becomes addicted to meth, and regrets her choices. In "Option B", she ignores the drug dealer when he tried to talk to her, and instead begins working at a cafe, and rents a room there. She then is offered to join after watching a rap show outside the cafe.[9]
The group released their debut and only album Good Morning South Africa in [10] A DVD featuring 13 skits, music videos and short films was released in the same year, titled Goeie Morge Zuid Afrika.[11]
Die Antwoord
Main article: Die Antwoord
Du Toit is currently a member of the South African rap-rave group Die Antwoord.
Yolandi visser External links [ edit ]. The two share a daughter, Sixteen Jones, born in Archived from the original on 31 October See also [ edit ].The group was formed by du Toit, her then-partner Tudor Jones, and producer HITEK (formerly referred to as DJ Hi-Tek and God). They have since added a second producer Lil2Hood.[12]
Die Antwoord is part of the South African counterculture movement known as zef. For the band, du Toit goes by the stage name ¥o-Landi Vi$$er.
She styled her hair into a bleach-blonde mullet at the start of the band, which was originally done to have an edge. She has said cutting her hair felt like a birth, and a statement of outsider and zef pride.[5]
The band released their debut album $O$ in It was made freely available online and attracted international attention for their music video "Enter the Ninja".
They briefly signed with Interscope Records, and left after pressure from the label to be more generic.
Die antwoord yolandi visser January 21, Who is Sarah Snyder? One of the most notable controversies occurred in when a video surfaced online showing Yolandi and Ninja involved in a physical altercation with actor Andy Butler. The only difference is I don't take off this fokken Superman suit. The singer is not married.du Toit explained that Interscope "kept pushing us to be more generic" in order to make more money: "If you try to make songs that other people like, your band will always be shit. You always gotta do what you like. If it connects, it's a miracle, but it happened with Die Antwoord."[13] They formed their own independent label, Zef Recordz and released their second album Tension through it.[14]
They have since released three other albums: Donker Mag in ,[15]Mount Ninji and da Nice Time Kid in , and House of Zef in [16] As well as this, du Toit played a self-styled role as ¥o-Landi Vi$$er in the Neill Blomkamp film Chappie.[3]
Personal life
Du Toit has a daughter named Sixteen (b.
) with Watkin Tudor Jones.[17] Du Toit and Tudor Jones also adopted or fostered three children.[18]
In , a video from surfaced, showing Tudor Jones and Visser fighting and hurling homophobic slurs against Andy Butler, founder of the American dance project Hercules and Love Affair.[19] Tudor Jones claimed that the person who filmed the video edited it to make it seem like they were in the wrong.[20][21]
Discography
The Constructus Corporation
- Rap Made Easy ()
- Good Morning South Africa ()
Die Antwoord
Filmography
- Goeie More Zuid Africa DVD ()
- Tokoloshe ()
- Umshimi Wam ()
- Chappie[22]
- ZEF: The Story of Die Antwoord ()