| Loit Sôls [performance poetry] |
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poet, guitarist Performance format: available for solo poetry readings, solo performance poetry, as duo with Les Javan, as part of the Khoi Khollektif For bookings  click hereLoit Sôls is a peoples' person who laughs like an hyena - a lot. He is also a poet, a singer and a guitarist. He took up the guitar at age 21 and is self-taught in music and writing. He's been writing since he was 8. "I used to not like the journey of my life because it puzzled the hell out of me. Making me into a brooding, self-conscious teenager, using laughter to disguise my confusion. Today it still does but now I can handle it. I am satisfied with the way my life has evolved. And I laugh, genuinely, about it. Laughter grounds me." He has done many things in his life. His first 100-odd jobs were all menial: messenger, sweeper, delivery assistant, shelf-packer, dispatch-clerk, machine-minder, etc. His first career break (and foray into the world of art) came when he started a window-dressing apprenticeship with Half Price Stores (Pep), which involved traveling into up-country areas. "My first trip out of the city was to Stellenbosch. Man, it felt like I was going overseas!" He worked his way up to display supervisor, sign-writer and advertising-designer. His big career break came when he landed a position as a graphic designer with YOU magazine, the English language sister of the wildly popular Afrikaans language Huisgenoot magazine. He went on to design the masthead and was instrumental in the magazine's overall design and corporate image forms. 6 years later he left the corporate world for good. First stop Scotland, where he performed to a standing ovation on the Edinburgh International Arts Fest. Biggest highlight: A tribute, published in a Cape Town Daily, which was written for him in the form of a poem by a youth who attended one of his performances in Bushmanland. Other highlights include: First publication My Straat en anne Praat-Poems (Kwela 1998) launched at KKNK (Oudtshoorn Fest) with 6 gigs on the main Fest Reprint of My Straat ... 1999 In the national SA university curriculum and Universitas Indonesia Jakarta Java and used by Stellenbosch and Potchefstroom universities Drama Deptartments Included in the collections: A century of SA Poetry; Groot Verse Boek (SA); Afrikaans in 'n duisend en een gedigte; O wye en droewe land (Nederland) In the Library Dept of the City of Cape Town and The SA State Library Work translated in Dutch, French and Bahasa Indonesian In the private collection of Mrs Zanele Mbeki New work in Nuwe Verset Music in the SABC Music archives and International Library for African Music at Rhodes University Invitations: KKNK Main Fest and Fringe with trio AwuMalawu 1999 Winternachten Literature, Music and Film Fest Den Haag, Nederland 1999 Poetry Africa Durban 1999 Jakarta International Poetry Reading Java Indonesia 2001 Cape Town Fest 2002 Other: Maergat! A cabaret at Artscape (running over 3 weeks) 2000 Numerous Press, Radio and TV appearances locally and overseas Now he works purely as a musician and poet. "Sometimes I eat well, sometimes I'm hungry. But I`m happy, because I am always guided by the Big Spirit.
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