Jurie Els

Jurie Els is a South African singer with a great number of albums and singles to his credit.He is owner of Stetson Music.Between 1994 and 2003, he was an artist and music producer with Sony, Johannesburg, South Africa. Els started singing professionally in 1994 after winning the popular South African TV quiz programme Noot vir Noot in 1991.Els wrote the lyrics to hundreds of South African songs recorded by some of the most popular artists including Sonja Herholdt, Rina Hugo, Gé Korsten, Carike Keuzenkamp, Bobby Angel, Robbie Klay, OTH, Joanna Field, Caroline du Preez, Nadine and Patricia Lewis.He has to date 37 CD and DVD releases and total sales of over half a million units.Most of his albums were released on BMB and later Sony BMG.Two of his albums (Vat-Vat and Duet met Patricia Lewis) have gone platinum and 5 gold as a recording artist.He has also won many awards as music producer and songwriter.