Bio
One of South Africa’s leading Afrikaans hip hop & rap projects, Kallitz, was conceptualized in 1998 by music producer Dokte, and signed to Mothermix Records in 2004.
Between 2004 and 2006, Dokte executive produced and released two albums by Kallitz, as well as produce music for various other projects and artists.
The Kallitz debut album ‘Die Ding Ruk Mal’ (2004) was voted ‘Album of the Month’ by FHM, ‘Album of the Week’ by CD Wherehouse and ‘Album of the Moment’ by www.africasgateway.com. It reached No 1 on the SA Rock Digest Album Charts and won ‘Best Hip Hop Album’ at the 2005 SABC 2 GMT Music Awards.
The second album, ‘Dukgesuip’ (2006), produced three No 1 Hits with ‘Wat Gaan Ons Maak’ featuring Steve Hofmeyr, the Cape Town anthem ‘Kaapse Paatie’ and ‘Suikerbossie’, a hip hop version of the Afrikaans classic; as well as the popular title track ‘Dukgesuip’.
The song “Kallitz Innie Plek” was also featured in the movie Footskating (with Rob Van Vuuren) as well as on the official movie soundtrack album released by EMI Music South Africa.
In August 2008 he was featured in season one of the SAFTA Award winning SABC2 reality tv show ‘Jam Sandwich’ where he spent 5 days filming and collaborating with Afrikaans rock artist Karen Zoid on a new track called “Good Times” on what was a highlight of the TV series.
On 30 September 2008 he released the EP album ‘Maak Mekaa Sterk’ as a freely downloadable album for a limited period.
After parting ways with his business partner at Mothermix Records, Dokte registered his own company called BLM Music with which to continue to realise his music ambitions.
In mid 2010 he collaborated with DJ Azuhl of Brasse Vannie Kaap on a 16-track mixtape project called “Die Spreekkaame Miekstyp”, which he also made available free to the public.
Dokte has spent the last two years crafting his debut solo LP entitled ‘Die Afspraak’, and hopes to release it in 2012. The album is entirely written, recorded, arranged, produced and mixed by Dokte. A track off the album called ‘Weekend Special’ has been released as an exclusive on dokte.com way back in November 2010 and Dokte performed it live for the first time on etv’s ‘Shizniz’ tv show in September 2011.
Dokte was invited to perform at the HipHopKop launch event in Oudtshoorn on 20 November 2010, which was an initiative to promote Afrikaans Hip Hop as a competition at at least three Afrikaans Music Festivals. He was then selected along with Ready D and Jack Parow as one of the three judges for the first round of the HipHopKop which took place at the Artscape Theatre in Cape Town on 18 January 2011. Dokte performed again at the second round at the 2011 KKNK and was a final round judge at the third round at the 2011 Aardklop Festival.
Dokte’s stage performances were seen at Levi’s ‘Rage for the Revolution’ AIDS benefit concert, Maties Rag, Stellenbosch Woordefees, the KKNK in Oudtshoorn, the Cape Town Festival, the Worcester Festival, the Suidoostefees, the Rittelfees in Vredendal, the Cedarberg Festival, Aardklop in Potchefstroom, Gariep Festival in Kimberley, the SABC 2 GMT Awards at the Emperors Palace in Johannesburg, together with Steve Hofmeyr at the Barnyard Theatre, together with Karen Zoid in Dullstroom, the HipHopKop launch event and at various school carnivals and festivals, as well as various clubs.
Kallitz were also approached by ATKV to write, compose and record an ATKV jingle rap song in 2006.
Media exposure include ‘Hola’ (Channel O), ‘Unzipped’ and ‘Street Journal’ (SABC 1), eTV News, ‘Pasella’, ‘Morning Live’, ‘Master Magician Wolfgang Riebe’, ‘Jam Sandwich’, ‘Dube on 2’, ‘Shizniz’ (etv), ‘Pitstop’ (SABC 2), ‘Dis Hoe Dit Is Met Steve Hofmeyr’ and ‘Kwela’ (kykNET), ‘Hip Hop” (MK), YFM, 5FM, GHFM, KC Radio, RSG, Hype magazine, Huisgenoot, FHM, Rootz, TV Plus, SL Magazine, Beeld, City Press, Die Burger, Die Son, Sondag, Rapport and many others.
Fans can visit Dokte on his official website & blog at dokte.com.
