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Kuhle Nkosi

March 12, 2021 By Owen Swanson

Kuhle Nkosi

Kuhle is an AFDA graduate (The South African School of Film, Television and Dramatic Art) and received his degree in Directing, Producing and Writing in 2007. Since graduating he has built up various other experiences within the entertainment industry, working as a sport researcher for the SABC, the 2008 Olympic Games and the Confederation Cup in 2009. Kuhle has also worked as a casting director for television commercials.

He has also worked behind the scenes in Johannesburg’s Hip Hop scene with multiple live events and by providing content and consultancy for some of the top promotors in the city. Some highlights include various shoots and live events for

Slum Village, Blu & Exile, Vast Air of Cannibal Ox, People Under The Stairs, Skyzoo, Planet Asia and Ras Kass.

Kuhle has also featured as an actor in various top brand television commercials, most recently in an international Jameson TV commercial directed by Anthony Mandler. (Jay Z, Usher, Rihanna, Justin Bieber)

Kuhle’s radio experience has seen him co-host an adult talk show segment called ‘Adulting’ on Power DM with Khomotso Moloto and Pabi Moloi.

Over the last ten years, Kuhle has become extremely popular as a voice over artist; recording countless commercials for television, radio and online, Kuhle has been the brand voice for SABC 1 and the station voice for KFM and Cape Talk Radio.

For bookings or more information on Kuhle, please get in contact with an agent at OSM Talent.

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Kew Khauoe – CPT

March 10, 2021 By Owen Swanson

Kew Khauoe - CPT

Kew Khauoe was born in Sebokeng in the Vaal. He is an experienced voice over artist, actor and presenter and the co-founder of the International award-winning film production company Enere Pictures.

He began his love for performance and TV at the tender age of 5 after being a resident on an SABC kiddies show. He would perform informally in front of the mirror pretending it was a camera.

Since then, Kew has been trained by some of the industry’s great performance coaches such as Louse St. Clair and Dorothy Ann Gould. Kew has since appeared on various stages, TV and Film productions including Backstage, Loveness, Generationss, Intersection, King Makers and My Fathers War as well as presenting two shows on Mindset Learn Health channel.

Kew is a well-established voice over artist with over 15 years of experience working with various types of clients and voicing radio commercials and stories; TV shows and commercials; Interactive Voice Response (IVR’s); corporates and corporate events and much more.

For bookings or more information on Kew, please get in contact with an agent at OSM Talent.

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Kuthula Siboto

February 25, 2021 By Owen Swanson

Kuthula Siboto

KuthulakweNkosi “Katt Daddy” Siboto is a 29-year-old musician and voice over artist from kuQumbu in the Eastern Cape. He is the youngest of 4 children and grew up in Port Elizabeth. He left Port Elizabeth when he was 19 to pursue music in Cape Town where he spent 4 years working in retail, being a waiter, a bartender and selling clothes to fund his career as rapper “Katt Daddy”. He then met his partner, Yoza Mnyanda, and together they started a music duo called “Darkie Fiction”, making music influenced by Kwaito, Afro-funk, Neo-soul and Hip-Hop.

While in Cape Town he was introduced to voice overs, this changed the course of his life. In his last year there, Kuthula, got his first big voice over opportunity. In 2018, He decided to use his earnings to move to Johannesburg with his partner to take their music career further.He is now a father to a beautiful baby girl, his music career is still on the rise and his voice has graced many stages, tv channels and radio stations.

For bookings or more information on Kuthula, please get in contact with an agent at OSM Talent.

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Mpho Osei-Tutu

October 29, 2020 By Owen Swanson

Mpho Osei-Tutu

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Mpho Osei-Tutu was born in Paris to a Mosotho mother and Ghanaian father and has lived in South Africa, Lesotho, France, England, Togo, Ghana and the United States.

His love of drama began at the tender age of eight. He holds a B.A. (Hons) in Dramatic Art from Wits University, where he majored in Performance, Television and Screenwriting and is a familiar actor on the South African stage and screen.

On stage, Mpho has performed in Mike van Graan’s When Swallows Cry (2018 Naledi Awards Best Play). He also played Mr. Grove in Reza de Wet’s African Gothic (2018 Broadway World Awards Best Play and Best Actor in a Featured Role). His portrayal of multiple roles in Wajdi Mouawad’s Scorched earned him a Best Actor nomination at the 2017 Naledis and he was part of the 2013 Naledi Best Play ensemble of Moliere’s The Miser. He enjoyed success with his self-penned Convincing Carlos (2010 Standard Bank Ovation Award) and has enjoyed multiple runs with Zakes Mda’s The Mother Of All Eating, Paul Slabolepsky’s For Your Ears Only and Athol Fugard’s The Island. He also played Ramabanquo in Pieter-Dirk Uys’ MacBeki.

On screen, Mpho guest starred as Neville in Outer Banks and Yen in Resident Evil - both on Netflix; recurred as fallen Mayor of Joburg, Shivambu, on Mzansi Magic’s Isithembiso and was a series regular as twins Tebza and Gary in the second instalment of the popular anthological series The Imposter (on Showmax). He received Best Actor nominations for the internationally acclaimed A Million Colours/Colors of Heaven (on Amazon Prime) and the Mzansi Magic sitcom Samsokolo at the SAFTAs in 2013 and 2014 respectively. In 2007 he was part of the cast for the International Emmy nominated Home Affairs. Mpho has also appeared in over 30 TV commercials.

Mpho who has voiced animated films, radio and TV commercials, corporate events, telephone IVRs, audio books and radio plays. He was part of the cast of the MTN Radio Award Winning radio Radio Vuka.

He is also an award winning screenwriter, a director and a producer with sitcom, drama and talk show credits to his name. He has been on the following SAFTA winning teams: Thuli no Thulani (2019 Best Writing in a Comedy), Ga Re Dumele (2016 Best Directing in a Comedy), Check Coast (2015 Best Writing in a Comedy) and Rhythm City (2009 Best Writing in a Soap). He was on the writing team of the 2010 International Emmy Nominated Hopeville, co-created the sitcom Kota Life Crisis (12 SAFTA nominations and 1 win for season 1 and 2) and wrote two seasons of the late night talk show WTF Tumi which earned him a Comics Pen nomination at the Savanna Comics Choice Awards.

Mpho served as a trustee of Johannesburg’s longest running Schools Drama festival The Raps One Act Play Festival from 2010 till its winding up in 2018. He was also on the board of The South African Guild of Actors from 2012 to 2014.

For bookings or more information on Mpho, please get in contact with an agent at OSM Talent.

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Thabisile Thabang Dlamini

August 13, 2020 By Owen Swanson

Thabisile Thabang Dlamini

Thabisile Thabang Dlamini is an experienced voice-over artist, a creative writer & content producer and an aspiring musician. Her voice-over portfolio boasts an array of productions of radio dramas, commercials, public service announcements, promos for radio and television, corporate videos and podcasts.

Thabisile also has experience as a stage actor. After 2 years of training at the South African State Theatre in 2011 – 2012 she was in a musical as part of the Rain Of Art festival at the State Theatre; “My Richest Yard” directed by Ayanda Sithebe.

At only age 20 and still a 2^nd year Media student she already had her byline in a national youth magazine with a monthly circulation of 600 000 copies; loveLife’s own UNCUT Magazine. She worked with UNCUT for three years being part of the editorial team and then began producing radio content for loveLife (the largest and most recognised youth HIV prevention NGO in South Africa). The content was translated and broadcast in all eleven official South African languages on all the nine African language radio stations of the SABC (South African Broadcasting Commission) and community radio stations across all nine provinces of the country.

2009 was a giant leap into digital media. Together with a New Media Consultant from New York City, Thabisile produced a first in South Africa - a youth mobile social network dedicated to social change, namely www.mymsta.mobi which has since been re-launched into www.ilovelife.mobi. This was also the year Thabisile worked with the HIV/Aids & Media Project, the journalism department at the University of Witwatersrand and the Perinatal HIV Research Unit; where she wrote a series of articles on "Fatherhood and Aids" after her father passed away from Aids in 2008. The articles focused not only on her personal story, she interviewed many other HIV positive fathers and their children. In 2012 the series was published and released internationally in a book called Uncovering Men: Rewriting Masculinity and Health in South Africa.

Thabisile currently writes for FunDza Literacy; her short stories are published by FunDza on the FunDza mobile app which is aimed at delivering good literature to young people who would otherwise not have access to it – thus encouraging a culture of reading in young South Africans. The stories address social ills and issues that young people face and are written not only to entertain but also to educate, guide and expand young minds.

She is currently working on her debut album, a unique sound fusing indigenous African instruments with poetry and pop. It’s set to be a first in the world promising to be a special work of art focused on healing the emotional body – a must for audiences who prefer to go deep.

Thabisile is a vibrant young woman with special gifts and a character that promises to keep her where her gifts will lead her to. She’s experienced and professional; clients who’ve booked Thabisile are always amazed at how well she takes direction and how articulate she is in both English and isiZulu. Her writing experience makes her very good at interpreting scripts, thus her delivery is always well executed. Thabisile Thabang Dlamini is one of a kind.

For bookings or more information on Thabisile, please get in contact with an agent at OSM Talent.

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Solo Langa

July 9, 2020 By Owen Swanson

Solo Langa

Solo Ntsizwa Ka Mthimkhulu (Zothile Langa), one of three children, was born and raised in Diepkloof, Soweto. Having written music for 15 years, he was known as a rapper and performer throughout his high school years. Solo finished high school in 2005 and went on to study Accounting at the University of Johannesburg. He did not finish his degree because he chose to persue a career in music.

The centre of his music is the art of story-telling and creating a visual picture. His first offering was in 2011, with an E.P. entitled ‘No Shades of Grey’ which received a review of 4/5 in Hype magazine. In 2012 he came out with his first single and music video entitled ‘Bad’ and later on that year went onto sign a recording deal with Grey Dreaming under Kabomo Vilakazi.

In 2013 Solo released two more singles ‘Star Dust’ and ‘The Frolic’ which feature on his debut studio album, ‘.Dreams.A.Plenty.’. In January 2014, he released the remix to ‘Star Dust’ which features Tumi from the Volume and Proverb, which also features on the album. ‘.Dreams.A.Plenty.’ was released on the 4th April 2014 and can be found in music retail stores as well as iTunes. Hype Magazine gave this album a stellar review and awarded it 4.5/5 in June 2014.

Solo also won the coverted ‘Best New Comer Award’ for 2014 at the SA Hip Hop Awards in December 2014.

In 2015, Solo released the 1st Single off his sophomore album, ‘Dreams.B.Plenty’, entitled ‘Overtime’. ‘.Dreams.B.Plenty.’ is the first album that Solo released under his own record label, ‘1988 Music (Pty) Ltd’.

Solo was also roped in by the car brand, Jeep to write and record a theme song for their 2015 release, Jeep Renegade. This campaign assisted in the car being the highest selling model for Jeep in 2015.

Solo released a joined album with label mate, Buks under the banner of BETR GANG in November 2015. The album was called ‘We Need A Title’ and was distributed on their website www.betrgang.com. Fans were given the opportunity to purchase the album at any amount they wanted.

BETR GANG won the ‘Jameson Indie Grant Challenge’ in 2016, which saw them receive a grant of R100 000 to shoot a music video for their single, ‘The Heist’. The music video was released on the 5 August 2016.

On the 16th September 2016, Solo released his sophomore album, ‘.Dreams.B.Plenty.’ under his label, ‘1988 Music’. The album features great artists like Kabomo, Ziyon, Spoek Mathambo, Lilly Million and more. This art piece also features renowned South African actors like Tumisho Masha, Fulu Mugovhani (SAFTA Award Winner for Best Lead Actress 2016), Altovise Lawrence, Richard Lukunku, Neo Ntlatleng, Tango Ncetezo and Mpume Mayiyane.

The stand out single, ‘Jubilee No Ligamo’ climbed all the way to number 11 on the Kaya FM top 40. On the 5th November 2017, Solo alongside his partner Dineo Moeketsi won the ‘Most Stylish Couple’ award at the 2017 SA Style awards. This came as no surprise after the self-proclaimed ‘Dapper Rapper’ won the ‘Best Dressed Man’ of the night the year before at the GQ Man style awards and multiple style features in their print magazine over the past 3 years. Solo’s love and passion for music has always shown through the work he puts out to his audience, on the 8th December 2017, ‘Solo and The BETR Gang’ announced the release of their second album ‘Tour Dates’. This concept album which was released on 3 January 2018, is a collaboration project, that sees Solo & The BETR Gang team up with 14 phenomenal features in SA Hip Hop.

The album is structured in the same way that a nationwide tour would be set up. Each song on the project represents a city in South Africa. All the regions are also represented by a feature from an artist, who originate from said places. This further reinforces the tour concept. Solo & The BETR Gang went on to create a never done before, 8-week residency at the AGOG Gallery in Maboneng and have not disappointed by putting on a brand-new show every week featuring special guests from the album as well as other industry heavyweights.

At the Grand Finale of their residency, Solo and The BETR Gang announced their new EP titled ‘des DATES de TOURNEE’ (Tour Dates - France Edition), which is the 3rd offering from the digital hip hop band. The 5 track EP was released digitally on Friday, 08 June 2018. The band then went on to announce their 3-city France Tour to promote the EP, they performed in Bordeaux, Nantes and Paris from the 18 June – 30 June 2018.

On the 5th October 2018, Solo and The BETR Gang released their new project, ‘Tour Dates Deluxe’ which featured 5 new tracks with 7 additional artists. The launch of their deluxe album was also the launch for their nationwide tour, which would see them performing in different regions with the artists who champion that region as headliners on the ‘Tour Dates for Tour Dates’ Tour.

In October 2018, Solo was named as number 4 in the Top 10 Best Dressed Males of 2018 by GQ Magazine.

For bookings or more information on Solo, please get in contact with an agent at OSM Talent.

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Chi Mhende

June 9, 2020 By Owen Swanson

Chi Mhende

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Chi Mhende is a Zimbabwean born performer and voice over artist.

She has worked extensively in the theatre performing leading roles, in both Shakespearean and Original works, on renowned Joburg and Cape Town stages. She has a background in Art Therapy having worked as a drama practitioner for the Zakheni Arts Foundation and as an Improv artist with the Bonfire Theatre Company. Woven into this freelancer’s game are appearances on international television shows namely; Mad Dogs, Homeland and Dominion.

In 2014 Chi received the Best Actress Award at the Durban International Film Festival for her lead role in the feature film Love The One You Love, directed by Jenna Bass. This role also led to an African Movie Academy Award nomination for Promising Young Artist.

In July 2015, Chi accepted the role of Wandile Radebe on SABC 1’s Generations: The Legacy, a role that came with much controversy and chatter, questioning the producers’ casting of a female performer in a male role. In November 2016 the character was revealed as Transgender. The actress, who describes herself as a “full on method performer” underwent a gruelling transformation which involved the strapping of her breasts and forgoing months of grooming rituals in order to deliver a body unlike her own, and create what Mzansi came to know as a very “pretty, yet sexually confused young MAN”. An advocate and die-hard soldier for human rights, Chi was delighted to portray this ground-breaking role (the first of its kind on African television), an opportunity she defines as “any artist’s dream come true and the absolute point and purpose of our existence as storytellers.”

In February 2017 Chi was named the SA Ambassador of the charity organisation Dramatic Need, a centre that provides an artistic outlet for children in the village of Rammulotsi, Freestate. Art based workshops and stories from the young people have delivered the internationally celebrated show The Children’s Monologues. Previously performed at The Royal Court by international stars such as Nicole Kidman and Benedict Cumberbatch, as well as at the Market Theatre in a magical 2016 concert opened by the late great Hugh Masekela. In November 2017 the children’s stories were again honoured at the Market Theatre, both having been directed by James Ngcobo with the 2017 show being staged by an all female cast. Thembisa Mdoda, Mmabatho Montsho, Cindy Swanepoel, Natasha Sutherland, Fiona Ramsay and other noteworthy artists where amongst this star studdedcast. Chi having performed with both the 2016 and 2017 players. In an international display, staged only hours later, the exact same script went up on the Carnegie Hall stage, directed by the charity’s long-time friend, trustee and sole international director of the Monologues, Academy Award Winner Danny Boyle.

Chi made her return to the theatre in the July of 2017 restaging of Sue Pam-Grant’s comedy drama Chasing Chairs, opposite Theo Landey. Later that year, celebrating the Panto season’s 30th anniversary, Chi made her Joburg Theatre debut Janice Honeyman's Pinocchio, as the villainous Pussy Galore The Cat.

In March 2019, Chi left Generations as an actor and began training as a multicam director on the show, under mentor and Principal Director, Ronnie Lennox. In May 2019 she joined the cast of Africa 's first ever Netflix Original Queen Sono as SOG Director General, Miriro Dube.

With more than a decade long voice-over career, having voiced numerous local and international documentaries, TV and Radio campaigns, Chi has been the station voice for 702, Cape Talk and Fine Music Radio.

For bookings or more information on Chi, please get in contact with an agent at OSM Talent.

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George Munetsi

April 23, 2020 By Owen Swanson

George Munetsi

With a career spanning over two decades in the media industry, George Munetsi has become one of South Africa’s most recognized voices on radio. Having left ZBC’s Radio 3 in 1996 after having shared the mic with some of Zimbabwe’s finest DJs like the likes of Peter Johns, Tich Mataz, the late Tsitsi Mawarire and the late Josh Makawa.

Munetsi decided to move to South Africa and soon established himself as a premier DJ for one of South Africa’s top radio stations Kaya FM. He was widely known for his fascinating show Georgie In The Afternoon (GITA).

Currently George is a radio programmer at 702, as well as a freelance commercials actor.

For bookings or more information on George, please get in contact with an agent at OSM Talent.

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Dane Remendes

April 17, 2020 By Owen Swanson

Dane Remendes

Dane is relatively new to the world of doing voice overs but what he lacks in experience he makes up for in enthusiasm. Dane describes himself as highly energetic, optimistic, outgoing, and passionate about everything he does.

Dane has a lighthearted approach to life and likes to think that he brings this quality across in his vocal performances.

In addition to more traditional voice work, he's a huge fan of spontaneously producing heavily exaggerated voices and accents, which leads him to believe he may be a good fit for voice-overs in more cartoonish, possibly animated productions.

For the past few years Dane has been working with Viacom International Media Networks Africa, providing the voice-overs for Nickelodeon Africa's on-air promos and assorted marketing materials. He's also worked alongside Urban Brew Studios, where he provided the narration for the game show Nickelodeon Genius - which was the result of a collaboration between Viacom and Urban Brew.

Dane has a youthful enthusiasm that is infectious, take a listen to his clips, he is a great addition for any client looking for a charismatic performance.

For bookings or more information on Dane, please get in contact with an agent at OSM Talent.

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Katlego Mahlake

January 22, 2020 By Owen Swanson

Katlego Mahlake

Born and bred in Johannesburg which is undoubtedly the heart of South African Media, Katlego joined the media industry as an actor at the tender age of 11.

With his larger than life personality, he graced the stages of a number of theatre performances at the time and has had the privilege of featuring in several television commercials from 2004 to 2011.

In 2013, his ambitions led him on a quest to make a name for himself in the radio industry, bagging a Liberty radio award in 2017 under the Bright Star Category.

While making great radio, he used the skills he had learnt as an actor to master the art of voice, becoming a highly sought-after voice artist who boasts a variety of delivery styles with a uniquely masculine, warm and natural timbre voice that immediately grasps your attention.

With an insatiable desire to explore more of media, Katlego is also a budding filmmaker who has produced and assisted in the directing of three feature length films and two television commercials from 2016 to date.

This multi-talented media man also has a knack for entrepreneurship, having had his fair share of failures and successes but still managing to keep the lights on amidst the current circumstances we face in South Africa.

With 15 years of experience in media, both at the fore and behind the scenes, Katlego’s achievements are a testament to his strong work ethic, talent and drive to leave an indelible mark in our industry.

For bookings or more information on Katlego, please get in contact with an agent at OSM Talent.

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Solo Langa

Chi Mhende

George Munetsi

Dane Remendes

Katlego Mahlake