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| Elvis Blue |
Big Concerts confirmed today that recent 2013 SAMA nominee
Elvis Blue will be the opening artist for
Bon Jovi’s South African tour dates. Elvis
Blue’s journey started when he was a young boy, singing in school choirs, and
busking on the streets of Johannesburg and Scotland. After a stint overseas as
a street musician, Elvis returned to South Africa where he decided to study
contemporary music. While living in George he met the friend whose name he
would adopt in 2008.
“My wife works at
an organisation that is a hospice and children’s home and I met this little boy
there when I used to go and play my guitar for them. He really wanted to be a
keyboard player, and his name was Elvis Blaauw”, he says. When he passed away
in 2009, as a tribute to this amazing young man, Jan Hoogendyk adopted his name
and Elvis Blue was born. In 2010, Elvis Blue won the title of Mnet Idol for
that year – sharing half the profit with runner up Lloyd Cele. In that year
Elvis Blue released the album simply titled Elvis Blue. On the album’s release
in November 2010, it shot up the radio and sales charts and today enjoys
platinum sales status with sales in excess of 50 000 copies, all powered by its
three smash-hit singles “Things my father said”, “Lighthouse” and “Save Me”.
His latest album ‘Journey’ has just recently been nominated for three SAMA
awards including ‘Male Artist of the Year’, ‘Song of The Year’ and ‘Album of
the Year’.
With one of the greatest
catalogues of songs in the history of rock n’ roll,
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| Bon Jovi |
Bon Jovi has sold more than
125 million albums and racked up a stellar resume of career
accomplishments.
Bringing their
signature brand of rock ‘n’ roll back to the people, Bon Jovi will be
performing live in South Africa in May 2013.The band will play Cape Town on 7 May at the Cape Town Stadium and Johannesburg on 11 May at the FNB Stadium. Tickets from Computicket.
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