Loit Sôls

(Retreat, South-Africa, 1957) grew up in the cape province. He worked as a graphic designer but is now a famous face in Cape Town, being a street singer and poet. He plays guitar and sings in Goema – a composite street language taken from many languages. For Sôls, language is a way of life: Kyk mooi na dié Taal. (Take a good look at this Language). Hoe haal sy asem? (How does it breath?) Noemmit Patois of Pidgin, (Call it Patois or Pidgin), djy waste jou wasem (You are wasting your breath) en djy hoonie rai beat-tie. (And you don’t hear the beat). Taken from: Dié Taal (This Language). In 1998, the collection My streat and other talk-poems appeared.