Alouise Peens. (Photo: Provided)
“I want people to hear my heart and hear what Alouise sounds like. I’ve been building other people’s dreams for years and now it’s my turn.”
This is what the multi-instrumentalist Alouise Peens says about the launch of “Dis jy” – her first single and music video as a solo artist.
This Ghoema winner has been in the music industry for 13 years and works behind the scenes on production sets of television programs such as Note for Note, Music Roulette in The Contract.
She has been playing the bass guitar in the popular Afrikaans singer Bok van Blerk’s band for five years and also helps as a teacher to hone the talents of young musicians.
Her love for music was already sparked at the age of three when she started playing the organ and piano. Soon after, she started strumming her sister’s guitar. “I grew up under my mother’s piano,” says this proud Free State girl.
In addition to the piano and guitar, she has also mastered the drums, bass and electric guitar and ukelele.
Now she enters the foreground with “Dis jy”, a raw and honest, acoustic pop song from her own pen. In it, she opens her heart about her feelings of jealousy and longing when she cannot be near her beloved.
“It is more like a type of jealousy towards everything and everyone who is close to this person, while I am far from them. I realized that you take everyday things for granted and that you are jealous of those things.”
This multi-instrumentalist already has a Ghoema award in his pocket. (Photo: Alouise Peens/Facebook)
The song was written during the lockdown and, according to Alouise, was inspired by the world’s use of social media and how people relied on it to feel connected.
Her goal with the song was to be real with the lyrics and remind listeners of someone special to them.
“People should think about the special times, songs that are special to them and the TikTok videos and Instagram posts they made together. I want them to smile when they listen to the song and then tell someone about it.”
Alouise’s uniqueness is also captured in “Dis jy”‘s music video.
“Everything about who I am is black and white. So that’s what we did with the music video,” she explains.
Alouise and Zander de Beer worked out the concept of the music video together, which was shot at Hemels Café in a pure white Licht studio.
She believes it is important to be honest about who she is and how she sounds, which is why she is now involved in the production of her music.
For her, music is the pulse of life, so she can’t wait to share her own music with the public.
When she’s not singing or playing instruments, she puts on her business woman shoes and runs her own online business. As a keen cyclist, she has also completed the Cape Argus cycle tour ten times.
She sums up her voice and musical style as honest, Afrikaans pop music and reveals that a few English tracks may follow.
“This is just the beginning.”
Watch the music video here:
