Yolandi Visser

Bio

Anri du Toit (born 3 March 1984)in Port  Alfred, South Africa.She is known professionally as Yolandi Visser (stylised as ¥o-Landi Vi$$er), is a South African singer, rapper, and songwriter.

She is one of two vocalists in the alternative hip hop group Die Antwoord, along with Watkin Tudor Jones.She was adopted by clergyman Reverend Ben du Toit, who worked as the director of communications for the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa in 2012, and his wife, and had an adoptive older brother, Leo.

Growing up, she has said she  listened to the music of Nirvana, PJ Harvey, Nine Inch Nails, Cypress Hill, Eminem, Marilyn Manson and Aphex Twin.At the age of 16, du Toit was sent to Pretoria to attend Die Hoërskool Menlopark, a boarding school which was nine hours away from her family's home. Du Toit said that she blossomed among other creative and artistic-minded people while there.

Toit was asked by Watkin Tudor Jones (aka "Ninja") to lend vocals for his project The Constructus Corporation. She was credited as Anica the Snuffling.The band released their debut and only album The Ziggurat in 2003.

 

ZACape Town, South Africa
In operation since: 
2002
Profile added by Lebogang Masilela on 15 Jun 2026
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