Jurie Els

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Jurie Els
Occupation(s)Music producer, singer
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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. [1]

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Els started singing professionally in 1994 after winning the popular South African TV quiz programme Noot vir Noot in 1991. He 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 BMG and later Sony BMG. Two of his albums (Vat-Vat and Duet met Patricia Lewis) have gone platinum and five gold as a recording artist. He has also won many awards as music producer and songwriter.[ citation needed ]

Personal life

In 2005 Els married the highjump world champion Hestrie Cloete. Their daughter Chrizette was born in 2006 and their son Jason John in 2008.[ citation needed ]

Els was involved in a high profile court case after ex child star singer Robbie Klay in 2008 alleged sexual molestation by Els when Klay was between 11 and 16. [2] The allegations first appeared in Beeld in February 2008. The Pretoria High Court trying the case found the evidence insufficient, Judge Chris Eksteen stating that Klay was a "very poor witness who misled and deceived the court and had a money motive". Klay's claims were dismissed in December 2009 acquitting Els on all charges of sexual molestation. Earlier the Supreme Court had ordered a ban on publication of details of the alleged incidents. [3] Major media outlets Huisgenoot, You and Media24, defying the court's publication ban, were successfully sued by Els and eventually sanctioned and fined.[ citation needed ]

Els went on to release eight more albums/greatest hit compilations after the 2009 court case. Klay left South Africa and now lives in Los Angeles.[ citation needed ]

Els and his family fled to New Zealand in March 2010 after massive public backlash from the South African community and they now live in Bayview, Auckland on the North Island. Els retired from the music business in 2016 and now owns a small company (Retro Records) that buys and sells vinyl records.[ citation needed ]

Hestrie, his wife, is a property manager. They own three properties in the Auckland area and are currently developing some land outside the historical village of Puhoi which Els is believed to have bought after a final court case/settlement.[ citation needed ]

Discography

Jurie Els albums / DVDs and "sell-thru" videos:

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