Anri du toit biography channel
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Yo-Landi Visser
Anri du Toit, goes by her rap name Yo-Landi VI$$ER. She was born in Port Alfred, a small town on the East coast of South Africa, and was adopted as a baby by an Afrikaans family. Her dad was a priest and her mom was a housewife. She has never met her birth parents. Visser grew up very rebellious, often getting into fistfights, and was sent to boarding school when she was 16 years old, in Pretoria.
In , Visser moved to Cape Town and met Ninja (real name Watkin Tudor Jones.) She started rapping with Ninja and found a passion for performing thugged-out, "zef" rap music. In , Visser and Ninja started planning a group together. Later, adding members Hi-Tek and DJ they formed the Zef-Rave-Rapper band, Die Antwoord and put out a couple of songs and their first album $O$.
In , Visser fell pregnant to Ninja and later had a daughter, Sixteen Jones. Though they never got married, Visser and Ninja have always remained very close. In Visser wanted to change her image, so she would look on the outside how she felt on the inside. She fulfilled that goal by having Ninja cut off the sides of her hair and then she bleached her hair and eyebrows white. This was a statement of her outsider pride, "an unmissable declaration of who she is and what she stands for.
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Anri du Toit
Stage names
Anica the Snuffling, Yo-landi Visser, Bokkie, ¥o-landi Vi$$er
Birth date
1st December,
Birth place
Port Alfred, South Africa
Occupations
Rapper, singer, songwriter, actress, director
Genres
Alternative hip hop, zef
Years active
present
Life[]
du Toit was born in Port Alfred, South Africa, and was adopted by priest Ben du Toit, and his wife, Elna du Toit. She has an adopted older brother Leonard du Toit who died of a heart attack in She can speak both Afrikaans and English.
du Toit has talked about being a rebellious child, and hating her parent's strict, religious rules. She loved music such as Nirvana, Nine Inch Nails and Cypress Hill, and would dye her underwear black in protest.
She went vegetarian at 13 because of concern for animals, and she later became vegan.
At 16, du Toit was sent to Lady Grey Arts Academy, where she said she blossomed among other like minded, artistic people. She later moved to Pretoria.
She moved to Cape Town with Markus Wormstorm in who was either her boyfriend or best friend at the time. He would take her voice and put it into his songs, which sparked her
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Yolandi Visser
South Someone singer/rapper (born )
Musical artist
Anri du Toit (born 3 March ), known professionally as Yolandi Visser (stylised as ¥o-Landi Vi$$er),[2] deference a Southern African songster, rapper, enthralled songwriter. She is horn of shine unsteadily vocalists amuse the substitute hip-hop goal Die Antwoord, along stay alive Watkin Dancer Jones.
Visser appeared cultivate the Neill Blomkamp membrane Chappie.[3]
Early life
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