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< Back Serame Sediti Gauteng ARTIST ENQUIRY I am interested in Select a date First Name Last Name Email Company Submit Thanks! We will get back to you shortly Event details Phone Serame Sediti is a Sesotho soul musician who began Sediti entertainment to position himself in the creative industry as a brand. He has performed on several international stages and showcased alongside numerous international acts. He has, to date recorded an eight track EP and shot a professional music video for his debut single “can you hear me calling” and is in the process of completing an album to be titled “based on a true story”. The Sesotho songbird strives to be an ambassador for South African arts, culture and music throughout. Serame Sediti prides himself in being a pioneer and cultural entrepreneur. Serame Sediti was born and bred in the beautiful mountains of Lesotho where he grew up looking after life stock, at the age of 12 he moved to Thaba Nchu, South Africa. At the age of 15, he lost his mother and had to struggle on his own. He then had to resort to the life of crime and as a result as in and out of prison for about 4 years. He then decided to shift his focus and make his life better by focusing and make his life better by focusing on his music and started attending local talent search competitions which he won a couple of them. He then went to national reality TV shows such as X-Factor SA, Pop Stars SA, Idols SA, and Clash of the Choirs SA. He then got an opportunity to work with the likes of Brian Temba, Terry Pheto, Rj Benjamin, Press, and other profound artists. He has performed at corporate gigs and on several international stages where he showcased alongside the likes of Syleena Johnson, Oliver Mtukudzi, Nathi, Stimela, Monique Bingham, and other profound musicians. He also has interacted with the likes of Sipho Hot Stix Mabuse and shared a stage with world-renowned group ALL-4-ONE.

< Back ARTIST ENQUIRY I am interested in Select a date First Name Last Name Email Company Phone Submit Thanks! We will get back to you shortly Event details Beauty And The Beat Gauteng Be blown away by South African Beatbox champion and vocal phenomenon Morgan Beatbox as he is joined on stage by one of South Africa’s foremost violinists Kristel Birkholtz. They will leave you astounded as you embark on a symphonic journey of beats and melodic sounds. TESTIMONIALS “The people were blown away. They absolutely loved it” – Karin Koch, Old Mutual

< Back Cafe Latte ARTIST ENQUIRY I am interested in booking Select a date First Name Last Name Email Company Phone Submit Thanks! We will get back to you shortly event details Gauteng The ideal brew for your special event. You'll only understand the true meaning of "café-chic" after hearing the freshly brewed sounds of Cristina Rodrigues and Devereaux Oosthuizen as Café Latte. With their endless blend of local and foreign cover sounds, two of South Africa's most acclaimed performers are now magically taming the airwaves together. Café Latte's distinctive combination of lively piano and electric violin will spice up your classy event - and enough steam to keep the guests toe-tapping their way through the schedule. Café Latte offers a varied spectrum of bohemian beats to meet any palate, whether it's tea cups and souvenirs, lobby beverages or garden cocktails, canapés or fine-dining. This contains special renditions of South African faves, well-known Parisian favourites, and/or a collection of snappy Jazzy numbers to sweeten the air. Perfect pairing has a way of balancing the tables - and Rodrigues and Oosthuizen are no exception. Think ethnic and stylish; shaken and stirred; strawberries and cream; Moet & Chandon; espresso and milk: perfect pairing has a way of balancing the tables. The essence of Café Latte's thrill-factor is their natural South African soul and unrivalled pizazz, which is guaranteed to boost and invigorate any event.

< Back ARTIST ENQUIRY I am interested in Select a date First Name Last Name Email Company Phone Submit Thanks! We will get back to you shortly Event details Dorette Roos Western Cape Dorette Roos is an exceptional cellist and successful entrepreneur. She completed her Bachelor of Music in cello performance at Oberlin Conservatory in the United States of America and her Master of Music degree at the University of Stellenbosch and the Mozarteum University in Salzburg, Austria. From 2008 to 2018 Dorette was a permanent member of the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra, after which she spread her wings as businesswoman and performer – establishing herself in the electric cello world. As a young entrepreneur, Dorette founded her own business, PLAY Live Music in 2012. The PLAY String Quartet features at numerous events and weddings each year and boasts the largest repertoire of contemporary pop music in SA. In 2013 Dorette became the music coordinator for The Aleit Group, taking over Aleit Music and incorporating it into her company. Dorette’s musical talent has taken her all over the world and as performer she has been involved in many prestigious orchestras, music festivals and film recordings, productions, bands, and chamber music concerts. Dorette’s newest collaboration features a feminine and edgy duo with DJ Anthea Scholtz and herself on electric cello called A N D.

< Back Dan Nicholl ARTIST ENQUIRY I am interested in Select a date First Name Last Name Email Company Phone Submit Thanks! We will get back to you shortly Event details Gauteng As host of The Dan Nicholl Show, a prime time celebrity talk show broadcast on SuperSport throughout sub Saharan Africa and currently in its tenth season, Dan engages with famous faces on a weekly basis, but it’s as a presenter and master of ceremonies that he is most prolific, hosting over 100 events a year around the world. Dan hosts the annual black-tie gala dinner at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship at St. Andrews in Scotland. He has travelled to New York and Philadelphia to host Beyond Sport United, and has hosted the launch of Just Challenge in Hong Kong, the Bangkok International Rugby Tens, AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open, DHL’s Race To Rugby World Cup launch in London, Criteo’s Digital Summit in Dubai, King Power Polo Cup in London, Snow Bike Festival in Gstaad, Switzerland, Kevin Pietersen’s London gala dinner, and the King of Lesotho’s annual gala dinner. As an ambassador for the Laureus Sport For Good Foundation, Dan hosted the 2016 Laureus Academy dinner in Berlin, the 2017 Patron’s Dinner in Monaco with Prince Albert, and the pre-show at the Laureus Awards in Monaco in 2019. Locally, Dan has hosted the Absa Cape Epic for 14 years, the Vodacom Origins of Golf series for over a decade, and nine of the first 10 editions of the Cape Town Tens. In 2018 Dan hosted the first Appetite Festival with all three Australian MasterChef judges, and in recent years has overseen Distell’s global conference, all events at the prestigious Dimension Data Pro-am, MasterCard’s World Cup launch with Dan Carter and Bryan Habana, the Nandos Fireball Invitational, book launches with The Parlotones, Zelda le Grange and Pete Goffe-Wood, the Spur Group conference, and the opening of David Higgs’s award-winning restaurant Saint. For the last four years Dan has also hosted the South African Tech and E-Commerce Awards. Dan also hosts weekly online wine show ‘Dan Really Likes Wine’, presented by Pick n Pay, and works regularly on wine events, including the annual Cape Wine Auction, in 2016 setting a South African record, selling a single bottle of wine for R1.4-million. “Dan is an accomplished speaker, and with his inspiring and passionate sense of sport, has entertained various Sanlam clients at our sporting events. I have been to various golf days and seen many MCs. Dan Nicholl is the best in the industry. You are in for a real treat.” – Gary van Loggerenberg | Sanlam “The high quality of the Beyond Sport Summit and Award in Philadelphia was very much due to the friendly knowledgeable and eloguent skill of Dan Nicholl as one of the primary moderators. He has the perfect mix of humour, thoughtfulness and journalist curiousity that keeps every panel and interview he facilitates interesting and relevant. He seems to always be a step ahead, making for entertaining and insightful content. No matter where in the world we hold our events, Dan will always be one of our first calls.” – Alexandra Chalat | Beyond Sport

< Back Rob Caskie ARTIST ENQUIRY I am interested in Select a date First Name Last Name Email Company Phone Submit Thanks! We will get back to you shortly Event details Kwazulu Natal I am often asked about the “WHO, WHAT, WHEN and WHY” of what I do, so I have prepared these words to help you consider including me in your next event or conference. Who am I and what are my areas of expertise? Having enthralled audiences with my experiences on motorcycle trips in southern Africa at university, I embarked on a professional speaking career 20 years ago. I have presented the stories of South African History, the battles of Isandlwana and Rorke’s Drift along with early Antarctic and Arctic exploration successfully to thousands of audiences around the world. As a consummate story-teller, I specialize in telling stories about human beings in extreme circumstances. My interest in people and their history was cemented by extensive travels all over the world. A passionate interest in photography assists me in creating visual images via the power of the spoken word. Alongside my speaking career, I conduct regular battlefield tours in KwaZulu Natal. What are my presentations about? Stories about human beings in extremis. My presentations resonate in the minds of the listener and relate thought-provokingly to the lessons which are to be learned from yesteryear. I specialize in telling powerful stories and entertaining audiences in the theatre of their own imagination, sans PowerPoint. “When the lights trip, Rob does not” . When should you use me? In any situation where something significantly different, compelling, thought-provoking and memorable is required. My stories, which may weave your theme into their content, are a great way to open or close an event. Being multi-cultural they are utterly appropriate for all audiences – they are essentially human stories. Why? As human beings, we have grown up with story-telling, yet with the entertainment options available today, this ancient art is being lost. Audiences love being swept up in a great story and entertained in the theatre of the mind. Storytelling may seem like an old-fashioned tool, today – and it is. That’s exactly what makes it so powerful. Life happens in the narratives we tell one another. A story can go where quantitative analysis is denied admission: our hearts. Data can persuade people, but it doesn’t inspire them to act; to do that, you need to wrap your vision in a story that fires the imagination and stirs the soul. When you want to motivate, persuade, or be remembered, start with a story of human struggle and eventual triumph. It will capture people’s hearts – by first attracting their brains. Allow me, with my stick and trademark shorts, the opportunity of revitalising your audience with a human story well-told.

< Back ARTIST ENQUIRY I am interested in Select a date First Name Last Name Email Company Phone Submit Thanks! We will get back to you shortly Event details Justin Cohen Gauteng Justin Cohen is the author of 4 books and 8 audiobooks. He hosts a CNBC Africa TV show in which he interviews some of the world’s top experts on success. As a leading authority on human potential, with a postgraduate degree in psychology, Justin Cohen speaks and trains in the fields of motivation, sales, customer service and leadership. Over the past seventeen years he has presented in 20 countries, and in virtually every industry, to an average of 8000 people annually. Justin is a Certified Speaker Professional and a Southern African Speaker Hall of Fame inductee. TESTIMONIALS “Justin electrifies his audience … he was the best speaker.” – Eric Peacock, Director, Academy of Chief Executives, UK “Justin delivered a powerful message that will have a long lasting effect on our people. We are experiencing early returns on our investment with a clear increase in sales numbers.” – Raymond O’Neil, MD, HSBC MIDDLE EAST” “Justin really made his presentation relevant to our organisation. This was the best guest speaker engagement we’ve had in ten years.” – Dirk Eksteen, Executive Director, Bytes Managed Solutions

< Back Soweto String Quartet ARTIST ENQUIRY I am interested in booking Select a date First Name Last Name Email Company Phone Submit Thanks! We will get back to you shortly event details Gauteng In the volatile 1960s, three young boys are trundling over Soweto's sandy roads. The Khemese brothers fearlessly ventured to music classes, armed with attitude, violins, and cellos, and facing jeers, sniggers, and taunts from the townspeople. Because their parents forbade them from hanging out on the unfriendly streets, the lads learned African choral singing and took up playing those strange Euro instruments, mastering them with natural born ease. The seed had been planted. The dusty track began to clear in 1978. While the elder Khemese siblings, Reuben and Sandile, were representing the SSQ in Aberdeen, Scotland, their blossoming skill was noticed, and Sandile was accepted into the Darlington College of Arts in England in 1980. The greatest day of the Soweto String Orchestra, according to Mike Masote, was when they were invited to play for Lady Aberdeen in Haddo House on a Sunday. This was one of the most significant opportunities that put the foursome on the map. The group performed and attended a classical music workshop led by Professor Alexander Pavlovich, head of the Department of Music at Belgravia, and Deborah Johnson, a well-known classical musician, during their two-week tour. He subsequently went on to study for four years at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. Sandile returned to a music-starved South African society in 1986, armed with new music abilities, culture, language, and lifestyle, and the SSQ was recreated, this time with boyhood friend Makhosini Mnguni. The Soweto String Quartet, also known as the SSQ, is a world-renowned South African brand. In recent years, SSQ has toured the world as ambassadors for the new South Africa. SSQ is not your typical classic rock band. The music is unique to Africa and does not sound like a traditional string quartet. It's a one-of-a-kind fusion of traditional rhythms, township jazz, mbaqanga, pop melodies, jazz-fusion, and significant classical elements. Their music is a soulful combination of kwela dancing rhythms, Mbaqanga syncopated guitars, swaying African jazz saxophones and trumpets, and people singing cheerful easy harmony. SSQ consists of three brothers, Reuben, Sandile, and Thami, as well as a close friend, Makhosini Mnguni. There was motivation for children to study violins and to aspire to be like the SSQ. This gave rise to SSQ songs being played and recorded by the majority of young orchestras, such as the Baskaid String Project. Thus, the SSQ has celebrated 25 years of producing superb music and deriving pure driving enjoyment from BMW. This Quartet became a full-time professional group in 1992 and has continued to perform in significant events around the world, including a performance at Nelson Mandela's historic inauguration. Since then, many such historical performances have taken place. The Soweto String Quartet has made an impact on people's lives throughout Africa and beyond. Its relevance to social issues provided hope throughout a difficult transition from apartheid to independence, allowing it to stand apart, separate, and far ahead of its counterparts. The group's lovely sound has grown with the times while preserving the group's essence of creating sounds of African heartbeat and soul that espouses music for its soul survival. When discussing successful musical groups in Soweto, the Soweto String Quartet quickly rises to the top of the list of long-lasting musical organisations. The ensemble has established itself as a forerunner of brilliance and the ultimate reference point in the type of music it has become recognised for around the world, threading its way to the summit. It is a brand that goes beyond the mundane assembly of a musical instrument, but rather an impeccable blend and discrete selection of sound that tells the great South African stories in particular, and African stories in general. Since the band's start, an estimated 20 million individuals have been reached through album sales. The reach includes both faithful album collectors and new audiences reached through dedicated projects such as the 2006 Gospel Album, which sold over 50,000 copies, and the current Afrikaans Album, which went platinum after only a week of sales. The classical character of the music ensures longevity in the purchaser's family and makes for wonderful gifts. SSQ believes that corporate firms will gain greatly from SSQ performances due to their distinct positioning in terms of music and performance. This advantage stems from the fact that SSQ is not mass-market music but is quite popular. Individuals who attend SSQ shows and functions are individuals with incredible individuality. These people have a strong drive for success, responsibility, and accountability. This is a group of high achievers, therefore the standing of SSQ.

< Back Tucan Tucan ARTIST ENQUIRY I am interested in booking Select a date First Name Last Name Email Company Phone Submit Thanks! We will get back to you shortly event details Western Cape Tucan Tucan was born from the desire of Muriel Marco from Argentina and Frank Paco from Mozambique/South Africa to merge and fuse distinct forms of music. Their music is a musical kaleidoscope. World jazz music infused with Latin and house beats. A lively mash-up of African rhythms and South American tones enhanced by jazz arrangements and high-energy dance beats.

< Back Werner Becker Gauteng ARTIST ENQUIRY I am interested in Select a date First Name Last Name Email Company Submit Thanks! We will get back to you shortly Event details Phone Werner Bekker is a full time performing musician with five years of experience in songwriting, composition, performance and teaching music. As a young boy music was ingrained into his existence. Growing up with creative parents, he traveled on tours throughout most of his young life. Werner studied at the Campus of Performing arts and graduated with a two year diploma in music performance in 2017. Throughout his musical career Werner has shared a stage with major South African acts such as Shortstraw, Man as Machine, the Parlotones, Desmond and the Tutus, Rubber Duc and many more. Currently Werner is performing as the lead guitarist/vocalist of Von Beck and also as a solo singer-songwriter. His musical upbringing and studies have allowed him the opportunity of writing film scores, jingles, and acoustic singles for various artists; paving his way through the South African music industry.

< Back ARTIST ENQUIRY I am interested in Select a date First Name Last Name Email Company Phone Submit Thanks! We will get back to you shortly Event details Intrique Gauteng Intrique’s vast music repertoire covers anything from jazzy, laid back, contemporary instrumentals, to latin and funky up-beat numbers. As trained classical musicians, they can perform technically challenging show numbers. Intrique fits in perfectly at a cocktail event, work beautifully as background music during dinner, can play at the chapel during your wedding service or if you are feeling adventurous they can roam amongst your guests.

< Back Miguel Pregueiro ARTIST ENQUIRY I am interested in booking Select a date First Name Last Name Email Company Phone Submit Thanks! We will get back to you shortly event details Gauteng Miguel Pregueiro, a South African-based Portuguese/Spanish singer-songwriter, is dedicated to introducing the Latin flavour to South Africa through his music. He finished top of his class at AFDA Johannesburg, where he specialised in Music Performance, as a former full-time football player turned musician. Miguel's music is classified as Latin Pop, however he is attempting to transition into a more Reggaeton feel. While he mostly sings in English, he also incorporates Spanish and Portuguese into his songs. He has a broad musical repertoire that he can perform depending on the audience. He performs solo, as well as with a two-piece and a four-piece ensemble.He has lately appeared on Trendz TV, Jacaranda FM, Mix FM, Good Hope FM, News 24, Yahoo UK, Expresso Morning Show, and many other platforms in South Africa. Internationally, he has been featured on RTP, where they presented a piece about Miguel and his musical career in South Africa.His debut single, "Vámonos," was published on June 15th and quickly became a smash not just in South Africa, but also in Venezuela, Spain, Canada, and many other countries! On November 16th, his latest single "Tacos & Tequila" was released digitally! TESTIMONIALS "The Idea Lab Team had the immense pleasure of recently working with Miguel and his Band on a Corporate Event for one of our Key Accounts." I can honestly say that Miguel is a sensational and refreshing breath of fresh air in an industry full of far too many performers who allow ego, complacency, and disregard to reign - He is not only exceptionally talented and vocally proficient, but also has a killer smile and engaging personality that had our clients - both female and male - enthralled, engaged, and on that dance floor eating out of his hand. His band is one of the tightest I've heard in a long time, and their professional demeanour, unpretentious demeanour, and willingness to deliver above and above expectations are unique qualities. The Lab Rats are forward to work with Miguel more frequently in the coming months." - Idea Studio