Bio

He has been plying his trade in the music industry since 2000 when he meet fellow emcees Japan Black & Heinemann at a Bush Radio workshop and together formed Hip Hop crew Stems. He started writing rhymes in 1998 and soon adopted the name Illuminate in accordance to his rhymes “bringing light to the darkness.” Between 1999 and 2001 he frequently phoned into The Head Warmers Show on Bush Radio to drop his thoughts and with Stems he performed at many open mic nights. After Stems informally disbanded in early 2001, he started rhyming with longtime rap partner Jean-Pierre. Beginning of 2003 he met some valuable people and together they started the fusion band Supadan in March of that year. He enjoyed some success in the band where he was one of two emcees, recording engineer and co-manager. Success ranged from having two songs enjoy high rotation on Good Hope FM, of which “Talk a walk with me” reached no.1 on the top 40 charts in November 2004 and being the 12th biggest song for that year and the next. There was also success in performing in front of +/- 8000 people at the Moral Regeneration Festival at Green Market Square in December 2004. He also helped Supadan release the single “Take a walk with me” at the Independent Armchair Theatre in October 2005. In 2006 he collaborated with Swiss artists on 3 songs for a Cape Town/Switzerland exchange compilation entitled Rogue State of Mind. After leaving Supadan in March 2006, he dropped the name Illuminate and settled for Perspektif as his new pseudonym. He is currently working on a debut album and accompanying that with 2 mixtapes, with the mixtapes due out late 2008 and the album due out early 2009 on Get It Out Entertainment, which he owns. His sound is very maturely fused in Hip Hop, Jazz, Soul and Funk. He, along with fellow producer Delay, has started a music production company called Just Write Productions. Whether Perspektif or Illuminate, this MC still encompasses the same passion for the microphone and more importantly the whole spectrum of the hip hop culture now as he had when he 1st scripted rhymes, tagged graffiti or 6 stepped.