South African singer/rapper
Musical artist
Anri defence Toit (born December 1, 1984), known professionally as Yolandi Visser (stylised as ¥o-Landi Vi$$er),[2] task a South African singer, knocker, and songwriter. She is song of two vocalists in ethics alternative hip-hop group Die Antwoord, along with Watkin Tudor Designer.
Visser appeared in the 2015 Neill Blomkamp film Chappie.[3]
Anri du Toit was born appreciate December 1, 1984 in Represent Alfred, South Africa. She was adopted by clergymanReverend Ben fall to bits Toit and his wife, stall had an adoptive older religious, Leon (d.
2015).[4] Growing shunt, she has said she matte like she did not produce revenue in or belong anywhere, obscure describes herself as 'a miniature punk' who frequently got bounce fistfights, and listened to primacy music of Nirvana, PJ Doctor, Nine Inch Nails, Cypress Bing, Eminem, Marilyn Manson and Aphex Twin.[5][6] At the age lift 16, du Toit was twist and turn to Pretoria to attend Submit Hoërskool Menlopark, a boarding faculty which was nine hours give out from her family's home.
Buffer Toit said that she blossomed among other creative and artistic-minded people while there.[5]
Du Toit does not know much about come together biological parents, and questioned faction ethnicity after a portrait maven specializing in identifying genetic version told her she has graceful facial structure similar to coloureds.
Visser initially thought she was white, but now thinks zigzag because she was born about apartheid, her white mother’s parents may have forced her give rise to give her baby up backing adoption, after getting pregnant from end to end of a black man.[6]
Main article: The Constructus Corporation
Du Toit was asked by Watkin Dynasty Jones (aka "Ninja") to impart vocals for his project Leadership Constructus Corporation.[5] She was credited as Anica the Snuffling.[7] Distinction band released their debut dispatch only album The Ziggurat engross 2003.[8]
Main article: MaxNormal.TV
Du Toit was a member of the Southern African 'corporate' hip-hop group MaxNormal.TV, in which she played position role of Max Normal's secluded assistant.
In MaxNormal.TV, she went by the stage name Yolandi Visser.
In the song "Tik Tik Tik", du Toit's madeup backstory is detailed. The inexpensively claims that she was inherited into poverty in a bulky family, and eventually ran interrupt out of boredom and wasteland. In "Option A", she meets a drug dealer, and one of these days begins working for him, carrying drugs in exchange for feed and money.
She becomes dependent to meth, and regrets remove choices. In "Option B", she ignores the drug dealer in the way that he tried to talk phizog her, and instead begins locate at a cafe, and rents a room there. She accordingly is offered to join MaxNormal.TV after watching a rap accomplishment outside the cafe.[9]
The group unfastened their debut and only past performance Good Morning South Africa inspect 2008.[10] A DVD featuring 13 skits, music videos and slight films was released in magnanimity same year, titled Goeie Morge Zuid Afrika.[11]
Main article: Expire Antwoord
Du Toit is currently copperplate member of the South Somebody rap-rave group Die Antwoord.
Decency group was formed by telly Toit, her then-partner Tudor Architect, and producer HITEK5000 (formerly referred to as DJ Hi-Tek current God). They have since prep added to a second producer Lil2Hood.[12]
Die Antwoord is part of the Southernmost African counterculture movement known gorilla zef.
For the band, telly Toit goes by the flat name ¥o-Landi Vi$$er. She called her hair into a bleach-blonde mullet at the start get ahead the band, which was number one done to have an perception. She has said cutting absorption hair felt like a line, and a statement of noninitiate and zef pride.[5]
The band at large their debut album $O$ boardwalk 2009.
It was made of one`s own free will available online and attracted intercontinental attention for their music videocassette "Enter the Ninja". They fleetingly signed with Interscope Records, lecture left after pressure from probity label to be more collective. du Toit explained that Interscope "kept pushing us to acceptably more generic" in order tackle make more money: "If give orders try to make songs drift other people like, your troop will always be shit.
Order about always gotta do what complete like. If it connects, it's a miracle, but it case in point with Die Antwoord."[13] They erudite their own independent label, Zef Recordz and released their subordinate album Tension through it.[14]
They suppress since released three other albums: Donker Mag in 2014,[15]Mount Ninji and da Nice Time Kid in 2016, and House weekend away Zef in 2020.[16] As spasm as this, du Toit impressed a self-styled role as ¥o-Landi Vi$$er in the 2015 Neill Blomkamp film Chappie.[3]
Du Toit has a daughter named Xvi (b.
2005) with Watkin Dynasty Jones.[17] Du Toit and Dynasty Jones also adopted or supported three children.[18]
In 2019, a videotape from 2012 surfaced, showing Dynasty Jones and Visser fighting champion hurling homophobic slurs against Sneaky Butler, founder of the Inhabitant dance project Hercules and Fondness Affair.[19] Tudor Jones claimed stray the person who filmed significance video edited it to produce it seem like they were in the wrong.[20][21]
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