Represent Recommends: PARTY PEOPLE & guests
Good luck with the cold spell Jozi, pull on your hoodies and don’t forget to catch Party People with DJ Khenzero this Thursday night at Roka. Let’s give a warm Jozi welcome to BIG IDEA from Durban who will be performing live… see their biog below. Click on image for more detail. Represent!
30 June @ Roka
44 Stanley @ Milpark
9pm R50
Big Idea – A Brief Biography
BIG IDEA started as a collaboration of artists from backgrounds representing the mixed masala of cultures that make up KwaZulu Natal. They have managed to infiltrate the vanguard of Durban’s music scene to become one of its boldest champions. Through their music they cross cultural bridges and build new ones where no-one had thought they could exist!
BIG IDEA are the leaders of the resurgence of live music in Durban. Since their inception in 2004, the band has rapidly become the quintessential hip-hop/jazz fusion group. Fronted by charismatic vocalist Quincy “Q” Fynn, the band is Gareth “2 Gees” Gale on drums, Rory “The Jacob” Jacobs on Sampler, vocalist/emcee King Babar, emcee JET and Dj. LV on decks. Electric performances at TransAfrica Express, Krakatoa and Splashy Fen 2005 & 2006 were followed by more chilled performance at The Centre for Jazz and Popular Music (UKZN), allowing BIG IDEA to demonstrate their ability to appeal to a diverse audience.
Emcees Q and King Babar are the jacket and waistcoat of the outfit respectively. Babar is better known as one-third of pioneering hip-hop outfit Illuminating Shadows where his abilities shine as both beat producer and through rhyme. With BIG IDEA his skills as a lyricist, beat boxer and freestyle emcee fascinate and thrill audiences every time he touches the microphone.
Their performances are characterized by the energy that is exuded by the entire group. 2 Gees is a powerful and stylish drummer who utilizes his experience as a jazz and rock drummer to it’s most potent effect. He provides presence and leadership, which, drives the music forward constantly.
Q’s rhyming and descriptive lyricism is “uncompromising, honest and crystal clear”. He has honed his skills through poetry and was a participant at Poetry Africa 2005. He has added a new, unique voice to the South African performance poetry landscape. He describes his work as “Wentworth inspired poetry that both reflects and dispels the stereotype of the urban colored youth.” He is inspired by the contradictions, which he says characterize the new South African democratic age: Growing up in a community, which is tight knit and yet deeply divided through violence, crime and abuse; Living on one of the most beautiful strips of coastline in the country yet breathing the most polluted air anywhere in the world (Durban’s South Basin).
Dj. LV. and emcee and “hype-man” Lee “JET” Wynne complete the outfit. LV is one of South Africa’s most talented dj’s who posseses the rare ability of being able to rock a crowd and display technical flare as a turntablist.
Big Idea is a combination of a wide range of talents that are brought together through hip hop. Although their sound has been described as Jazzy, Big Idea rocks, hard and they give the heads something to break their necks to.
