{"id":60496,"date":"2016-10-18T13:35:29","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T11:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novanews.co.za\/rooirose\/?p=60496"},"modified":"2017-07-13T12:59:06","modified_gmt":"2017-07-13T10:59:06","slug":"leah-vars-talent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/rooirose\/leah-vars-talent\/","title":{"rendered":"Leah: vars talent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leah se debuutalbum, <em>Wonderwerk<\/em>, is eers verlede jaar uitgereik, maar die publiek \u00e9n kenners het so baie daarvan gehou dat sy vanjaar al vier gesogte musiektoekennings verower het. By die Tempo-toekennings in Julie is sy as Beste Nuweling aangewys, en \u201cMet jou Klere aan\u201d is as die Liedjie van die Jaar \u00e9n Beste Musiekvideo aangewys. Sy is ook met \u2019n Ghoema bekroon as Nuweling van die Jaar.<\/p>\n<p>Maar moenie dink Leah, wat in November 2016 dertig word, se pad na sukses was maklik nie. Sy was van kleins af mal oor sing, en het op skool aan al wat \u2019n sangkompetisie en kunswedstryd is, deelgeneem. Sy vertel skertsend hoe sy en haar ma, Christa, menige Saterdagmiddag iewers op die uitslag van een of ander kompetisie sit en wag het.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>\u201cMy ma is my grootste aanhanger, en my stiefpa, oom Herman, het nog al die jare my keuses ondersteun.\u201d <\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Leah &#8211; sy is Leani Ekermans gebore &#8211; het altyd van \u2019n sangloopbaan gedroom, maar nooit gedink dis \u2019n werkbare plan nie.<\/p>\n<p>N\u00e1 matriek het sy haar musiekdrome opsygeskuif en B.Com. Regte op Stellenbosch gaan studeer. Maar die musiek wou haar maar nie los nie.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNadat ek een keer by \u2019n kultuurskakeling met \u2019n manskoshuis sommer vir die pret gesing het, was die reaksie so goed dat ek al hoe meer by kultuuraande opgetree het en weer aan kompetisies begin deelneem het.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>N\u00e1 haar regsgraad het sy besluit om voorlopig nie verder in die regte te studeer nie, maar eerder haar kanse op die verhoog te waag en vir \u2019n diploma in musiekteater aan die Waterfront-teaterskool in Kaapstad ingeskryf.<\/p>\n<p>Drie jaar lank het sy gesing, gedans en toneel gespeel onder die streng en wakende oog van onder meer Delia Sainsbury, medestigter van die teaterskool. Ballet, moderne jazz, klopdanse, sang- en dramaklasse, opleiding in TV-aanbieding, die teorie en praktyk van musiekteater &#8230; Sy rits die vakke af waaruit die grootste deel van elke dag bestaan het.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDit was rof, hoor! Ons kursus het baie praktiese klasse behels \u00e9n ek moes werk om my woonstelhuur te betaal. Ek het teen betaling vir medestudente klere gemaak en sommer vroeg al \u2019n agent gekry om vir my vryskutwerk te soek. Ek is bly ek was \u2019n bietjie ouer toe ek dit gaan doen het, want ek sou die druk nie direk n\u00e1 skool kon hanteer nie. Ek was doodseker dat dit was wat ek met my lewe wou doen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Die kollege het van studente verwag om vryskutwerk in die vermaaklikheidsbedryf te doen. Dit het ervaring en \u2019n ekstra inkomste verseker, maar beteken dat sy feitlik geen vrye tyd gehad het nie. Tog was sy steeds vas van plan om haar LLB-graad deur Unisa te voltooi, maar daar was net te min ure in elke dag.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>\u201cToe ek weer op \u2019n dag moes kies tussen \u2019n regseksamen en \u2019n kans om vier dae te werk en geld te verdien, het ek besluit om eerder die regstudie vir \u2019n ruk opsy te skuif.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dis nou \u2019n hele paar jaar later en die regsdroom vir eers vergete, want n\u00e1 byna ses jaar van bloedsweet, harde werk en opofferings is Leah die musieksensasie van 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Is die musiekw\u00eareld soos sy haar dit voorgestel het? \u201cWanneer ek op die verhoog is, ja,\u201d antwoord sy sonder aarseling. Sy glo dit help baie dat sy nie die mededingende musiekbedryf met sterre in haar o\u00eb betree het nie. Nadat sy in haar derde jaar in teaterskool \u2019n oudisie geslaag het by Mike McCullagh, vervaardiger van talle gewilde musiekproduksies soos <em>Tribute to Bob Dylan<\/em> en <em>Beatlemania<\/em>, het sy tot redelik onlangs nog gereeld in sy produksies opgetree. Dit was \u2019n puik leerskool waar sy van harde werk en professionalisme geleer het.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDelia was ook baie streng. Jy moes betyds wees, anders is jy uit. Ons is geleer jy toets nie die geduld van mense wat bereid is om vir jou werk te gee nie. Jy daag voorbereid en vroeg op en ken al jou woorde.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Deur die jare het sy in oorsese TV-advertensies en kabarette gespeel en selfs geld met stemwerk verdien. Sy was bereid om enigiets te doen om \u2019n loopbaandeurbraak te verseker.<\/p>\n<p>Haar groot deurbraak het gekom toe sy in 2012 as wenner van die Rapport-modelkompetisie aangewys is. Die bekende musiekvervaardiger Johan Vorster, wat ook sterre soos Bok van Blerk en Lianie May help ontdek het, het haar raakgesien.<\/p>\n<p>In 2013 het sy die rol van die sportonderwyseres Elize de Bruin teenoor Bobby van Jaarsveld in die musiekfliek <em>As jy Sing<\/em> gespeel. Sy het ook saam met Johan aan \u2019n solo-album begin werk. Hy en Christof Kotze het 13 van die 14 liedjies op <em>Wonderwerk<\/em> geskryf. Juan \u201cFloors\u201d Oosthuizen het gehelp met die album se unieke klank. Tussendeur het sy op feeste en saam met ander sterre opgetree.<\/p>\n<p>Haar album sou aanvanklik in 2014 bekend gestel word, maar Johan het gevoel die tyd was nog nie reg nie.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>\u201cEk moes baie geduld leer en moes hom en sy ervaring vertrou.\u201d <\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Teleurstelling was daar ook.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOns was op die punt om die album verlede September uit te reik toe hy s\u00ea hy voel ons kort nog daardie een spesiale liedjie. Ek was teleurgesteld, maar Johan was reg. \u201cMet jou Klere aan\u201d en \u201cMeer as Niks\u201d is eers daarna geskryf en het my treffers geword.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sy offer steeds baie vir haar musiekdroom op, soos om dikwels weg van die huis te wees en tussen Johannesburg en Kaapstad te pendel. Sy en haar man van die afgelope drie jaar, Hennie van Niekerk, en hul twee Jack Russels, Muggie en Lila, woon in Kaapstad. Sy en Hennie, \u2019n projekbestuurder in die finansi\u00eble afdeling van \u2019n groot kettingwinkelgroep, het mekaar tien jaar gelede op Maties ontmoet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGelukkig verstaan hy dat ek moet reis \u2013 hy moes ook sedert 2010 baie in ander Afrikalande werk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Twee besige werksdagboeke beteken dat hulle mekaar soms net vir \u2019n dag te sien kry voordat die een weer moet vort, maar hulle het besluit om nie nou die Kaap vir Johannesburg te verruil nie.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDie gependel is niks lekker nie,\u201d erken sy. \u201cEintlik is ons redelik <em>joined at the hip<\/em>, maar dis nou maar die aard van my beroep. Ek sal in elk geval steeds moet pendel vir optredes, of ons nou in Kaapstad of Johannesburg woon. Wanneer hy kan, kom Hennie saam na feeste waar ek optree, maar ek kan ook nie van hom verwag om vir alles verlof te neem nie. Hy het sy eie loopbaan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hulle maak die beste van \u2019n slegte saak deur \u2019n paar keer per dag telefonies te gesels.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>\u201cWanneer ek by die huis is, is dit asof ek op vakansie is, want dan werk ek nie, en is dit net ek en Hennie. Dan gaan ons gereeld na my skoonfamilie se strandhuis aan die Weskus.\u201d <\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hulle het nie nou planne vir \u2019n baba nie. \u201cOns wil nog eers die w\u00eareld sien, en op ons loopbane fokus. Ek speel ook lekker pop met vriendinne se babas, en ons is die peetouers van sy suster se baba. Ek is \u2019n baie goeie tannie, hoor!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leah se ysere selfdissipline en bereidheid om hard te werk en op te offer vir wat sy wil bereik, kom uit haar kinderdae.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEk is die oudste van drie kinders, my tweelingbroers, Ignus en Daneel, is 25. Ons is baie streng grootgemaak. My pa was \u2019n ingenieur en is oorlede toe ek sewe was. My ma en stiefpa het tot onlangs hul eie restaurant besit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Haar liefde vir musiek kom van haar ouers af. \u201cMy pa was baie musikaal, en my ma en ouma Sue het ook gesing. Daar was altyd musiek in ons huis. Ek onthou hoe ek en my boeties \u2019n Buddy Holly-vertoning op ons koffietafel gehou het terwyl my ma ons met die videokamera afneem.\u201d Haar liefde vir mooi, vroulike klere kry sy by haar ouma Stienie. \u201cSy was baie fyn en vroulik.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sy skram nie weg van kritiek nie. \u201cSolank dit opbouend is. My ma het as kind vir my objektiewe kritiek gegee, maar deesdae vra ek Hennie se terugvoer. Hy is objektief en eerlik.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Die borrelende blondine is realisties oor \u2019n loopbaan in die kollig. \u201cMy ma het my gelukkig as kind al geleer dat jy moet wees wie jy is, en moet aanvaar dat nie almal noodwendig van jou gaan hou nie. Ek het ook nie allerhande verwagtinge gehad toe ek \u2019n sangloopbaan gekies het nie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sy is verstommend onpretensieus vir iemand wat die musiekw\u00eareld aan die gons het, en lag en gesels spontaan.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>\u201cWhat you see is what you get.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEk is nie aanstellerig nie. Ek weet hoe moeilik die pad tot hier was, en waarnatoe ek op pad is, al is dit ook hoe moeilik om daar te kom. Danksy my wonderlike ma en man kan ek al my drome najaag \u2013 hulle albei was nog met elke tree van hierdie reis langs my.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Die borrelende Kaapse sangeres Leah het binne net \u2019n paar maande Afrikaanse musiekliefhebbers se harte gesteel, en kenners is net so gaande oor haar talent. Maar wie is Leah? Deur Ilse Salzwedel. 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