Yolandi Visser: Birth, Early Life, Bio
Yolandi Visser was born on March 3, 1984 in Port Alfred, Eastern Cape and she is South- African by nationality. Later, she earned fame with her stage name Yolandi Visser (stylized as ¥o-landi Vi$$er).
A priest and her wife had adopted Visser; she knows nothing of her birth parents and says she doesn’t want to. She considers herself “quite soft and caring” and “goth in spirit”. With her talent, hot looks and sometimes provocations and controversies. The 5’4” famous star weighs 53 kgs,
Yolandi Visser: Career in Music
Visser’s musical influences are really great in number Eminem, PJ Harvey, Aphex Twin, Cypress Hill Marilyn Manson and Nirvana are some of her musical influences . When she was 16, she was sent to a boarding school, nine hours’ drive from her home.
There she met some artistic people and got chance to identify and flourish herself. She started her career from 2001 and during initial period of her career, she became the part of The Constructus Corporation which produced a concept album/graphic novel.
Later, she joined the MaxNormal.tv which can be taken as arena of her overnight success and popularity. She further revved up her fame with Die Anterwood, formed in 2007, comprising Ninja (Watkin Tudor Jones) and DJ Hi-Tek (Justin de Nobrega).
Die Anterwood is very popular in Zef music, ‘Zef’ referring to the culture of working-class South Africans, performed in both Africans and English. All members from different cultural background mixing in one has made them even more popular.
They made their first debut album $O$ (2009) free for people in their official website www.dieantwoord.com. This album was able to establish itself as the most popular album in the history of South African music. The band also attained viral fame by the release of their 2010 single Enter the Ninja.
Yolandi Visser: Career in Acting
Visser’s works as an actress can be found in movies like Chappie (2015), Die Antwoord: Ugly Boy (2014), Die Antwoord: Fatty Boom Boom (2012), Die Antwoord: I Fink U Freeky (2012), and Umshini Wam (2011).
She has written for the soundtracks of Chappie, Focus, and Die Antwoord: Ugly Boy. She also appeared in a TV series documentary The Vice Guide to Everything and a short video documentary Tokoloshe.
FHM South Africa also put her in its cover for August 2012 edition. Her sexy and appealing looks with child-like voice have made her fans even crazier for her.
Yolandi Visser: Relationships, Family
It was around 2003 when Visser met Ninja (Watkin Tudor Jones) outside a Cape Town club. Ninja, now 40, had been on South African hip hop since 13. After signing up together in Die Antwoord, their relationship got a new form than music partners.
Although they were not married, Visser got pregnant in 2006 by Ninja. She gave birth to her first daughter– Sixteen Jones, the only children in her family who can be seen in the video I Fink U Freeky.
She also adopted Tokkie, a street boy from a poor family. Visser says that she always had that maternal thing, the connection with street kids and people who are misfits.
Yolandi Visser: Internet Presence, Net worth
Yolandi Visser has a big circle of fans. But she does not entertain interviews much. She is rarely seen in interviews and never in solo interview. But fans don’t need to worry about that.
She is available to the public via Facebook, with 34 thousand likes, Twitter, with more than 37 thousand followers, and Instagram, with more than 68 thousand followers.
She has recently been known to be worth 3.55 million dollars including of DJ Hi-Tek. Wikipedia and IMDb also contain information about her.
