Date: Wednesday 19th December
Venue: The Zula Sound Bar, Long Street
Time: 9.30pm
Tickets: R40
Chris Tait, the lead vocalist and main songwriter
for Tait arrived on the SA music scene in 2003
securing his first record deal with Fresh Music/Street
level Records. The album, "Back Seat Driver"
was received as one of South Africa's biggest
pop-rock albums of 2003, with the first single
"In My Arms" charting in the Top Ten
on radio stations nationwide followed by the next
single "The Best Days of My Life" doing
much the same. The band underwent some drastic
changes early 2005 due to the tragic loss of their
guitarist Quinton Jansen and have since then been
writing and recording at Street level Studios
in Cape Town. They released their much anticipated
album "So many Ways" in November last
year in a venture with Street Level and independent
record company, Next Music. During this time they
secured their first major publishing deal, with
Smack!songs/ Universal Music International and
are now also a part of the Authentic Ideas stable
of artists.
"She" is the first single from tAIT's
new album "So many ways". It's currently
charting in the top 2 on 5FM's Hi5@5 and is playlisted
nationwide. The video for "She" recently
took the No1 spot on DSTV's MK89 Top Ten and is
scheduled for high rotation on MNET Soundcheck,
Series channel, Holiday channel and many more.
tAIT is proud to announce the release of the
"She" Remix featuring American rapper/street
activist Brown and DJ Easy. tAIT performed live
with Brown at the Cape Town Rocks CD launch in
October, but the "She" Remix launch
party will be the first official gig with Brown
and the full band. The party promises to showcase
the exceptional combined talent of these socially
aware artists.
Hailing from Cookeville, in the US state Tennessee,
social worker, child activist and rapper Brown
(27), came to Cape Town for the first time in
1999 and joined Youth With A Mission. Meeting
up with the street children, and connecting with
them in a divine way, he decided to come back
to South Africa full time after spending three
months in India with the same organization. Back
in Cape Town, he worked as a street worker with
Beautiful Gate from 2000, and in 2004 moved his
work to Khayelitsha's community Town Two.
His true calling caught up with him in 1998 when
he became youth leader of his local church and
began working with 'ghetto kids' in the projects
of his hometown, Cookeville. Brown has dedicated
his life to hands-on work of helping the 'underdogs'
of society. His first feature role as a singer,
however, was in a musical play when he was only
five years old. He went on to win the State of
Tennessee Best Acting Award in 1994. Rap proved
to be the art form in which Brown first started
to record his experiences of working with Cape
Town's street children. He soon followed this
up by writing a book on the same subject.
Since 2004 Brown performed at various festivals
in South Africa, such as the Dance for Life in
Observatory, which is linked to an event in Holland
and was also covered by SABC 2. The response of
the audience was awesome, and concert goers demanded
Brown to release his album as soon as possible.
Mel.Vent Communications signed Brown with an artist-
and management agreement, adding this hard working,
multi-talented, socially conscious youngster to
its stable of unique Cape Town talent, which includes
award winning Afrikaans Hip Hop trio Kallitz.
Brown graduated from UCT in 2005 with a BS in
Social Work and then in 2006 with an Honours in
Social Development. His Album Hanging In and Hanging
On was released in February 2006, along with launch
of The Brown Foundation. His book Life Under the
Table will be released early 2008. The Brown Foundation
was set up to raise funds to tackle the challenges
at the root of the "street child problem"
by setting up proactive programs in the communities.
Along with his music, writing and ground work,
Brown also has a bi-weekly radio show (Sidewalk
Talk with Brown) on CCFM 107.5, in which he speaks
about burning issues that impact the youth on
the streets and in the communities.
This mashing of genres allows tAIT to show its
true diversity and, at the same time, with the
help of Brown's talent, bring attention to an
ever-growing problem in our country today. On
top of these successes, tAIT and Brown will be
releasing the track via download through MOBmix
on the popular MXit platform as well as around
SA on various download sites.
*A percentage of all artists' proceeds from the
song “She” will be donated to Childline Western
Cape.
www.tait.co.za
www.myspace.com/taitsa
www.thebrownfoundation.co.za
www.myspace.com/capetownbrown
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