Career

Hofmeyr matriculated in 1982 at Grey College

Grey College, Bloemfontein

Grey College is a public school for boys located in Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa, one of the 23 elite, historically significant and prestigious Milner Schools...

. After two years compulsory army and border duty, he went to Pretoria Technikon Drama School.

Recording star and performer

In 1997 he broke onto the international music scene when he recorded the duet You Don't Bring Me Flowers with Belgian

Belgium

Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

 star Dana Winner

Dana Winner

Dana Winner is the stage name of Chantal Vanlee . She is a Belgian singer who is famous especially in Flanders and the Netherlands.-Biography:...

 for his album True to You. This track was also recorded in Dutch

Dutch language

Dutch is a West Germanic language and the native language of the majority of the population of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname, the three member states of the Dutch Language Union. Most speakers live in the European Union, where it is a first language for about 23 million and a second...

 and charted in Belgium at No. 2 in the Top 100. Winner and Hofmeyr performed together to sold-out shows in both Belgium and South Africa. One of his self-penned songs is currently a hit for her in Europe

Europe

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.

He subsequently toured Africa in 2001 with Beautiful Noise, the story and music of Neil Diamond

Neil Diamond

Neil Leslie Diamond is an American singer-songwriter with a career spanning over five decades from the 1960s until the present....

, and released a CD with the same title. The tour was a success, with 224 sold-out concerts.

In 2007 he toured New Zealand drawing record expat crowds in the country. He even appeared in a Breakfast television

Breakfast television

Breakfast television or morning show , is a type of infotainment television program, broadcast live in the morning...

 show.

Actor

He has acted in stage plays, films and television. From 1992 to 2001 Hofmeyr had a recurring role in the soap Egoli

Egoli: Place of Gold

Egoli: Place of Gold is a long-running bilingual South African soap opera which first aired on M-Net on 6 April 1992. South African television's first daily soap opera, on 3 December 1999 Egoli became the first South African television program in any genre to reach 2,000 episodes. As of 3 August...

 as "Doug Durand". Lately his performances have kept him from starring in television roles, but he made a brief return to the SA soap scene in May 2007 with a role in Sewende Laan

Sewende Laan

7de Laan is a South African soap opera in Afrikaans with some English and Zulu in between. It features English subtitles. It started in 2000 and is broadcast evenings on SABC 2 from Monday to Friday....

, as a newspaper editor named "Brandt van den Bergh".

OASE

In 2011 he made public that he supports the Expedition for Afrikaner Self-determination (in Afrikaans

Afrikaans

Afrikaans is a West Germanic language, spoken natively in South Africa and Namibia. It is a daughter language of Dutch, originating in its 17th century dialects, collectively referred to as Cape Dutch .Afrikaans is a daughter language of Dutch; see , , , , , .Afrikaans was historically called Cape...

 Onafhanklike Afrikaner Selfbeskikkingsekspedisie, or OASE

Oase

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). He is an avid pro-Afrikaner but mentioned that he retains a moderate political stance in an OASE

Oase

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 public relations video.

Controversies

In January 2007 there were reports that one branch of the News Cafe

News Cafe

News Cafe is a full-service cafe-bar and cocktail franchise restaurant chain founded in South Africa in 1995.The first News Cafe opened in 1995 in Hatfield, Pretoria, shortly after the lifting of sanctions against South Africa signalled the entry of overseas hospitality franchises such as McDonalds...

 restaurant chain would not play Hofmeyr's song Pampoen (Pumpkin). The managing director of the company that owns the franchise denies that this is company policy and points out that many Afrikaans acts, such as Karen Zoid

Karen Zoid

Karen Zoid is a female South African rock artist with vocal and guitar and acting talent. She is also a songwriter whose lyrics have been included in Afrikaans poetry courses at Stellenbosch University and the University of Pretoria.On 3 May 2008 she won the South African Music Awards SAMA for...

 and Arno Carstens

Arno Carstens

Arno Carstens is a South African singer-songwriter.- Singer Songwriter :Arno Carstens is an award-winning South African singer-songwriter and guitarist currently based between Cape Town and London....

 have performed at News Cafe.

On 12 May 2011, Steve Hofmeyr released the lyrics to his new song called "Ons sal dit oorleef", which means "We will survive this". The song is controversial, because Hofmeyr has threatened to include the word "kaffir" (the common Arabic word meaning "infidel" used by the British and the Boers in the 19th and early 20th century to refer to blacks in the context of his song, but today a very derogatory name for the black population of South Africa) in the lyrics of the song should a judge rule in favour of Julius Malema

Julius Malema

Julius Sello Malema is a South African politician, and the former president of the African National Congress Youth League. Malema occupies a notably controversial position in South African public and political life; having risen to prominence with his support for African National Congress...

.
When the presiding judge, Leon Halgryn ruled that "... the publication and chanting of the words 'dubula ibhunu', prima facie satisfies the crime of incitement to murder," Hofmeyr removed the offensive word in his song also, citing that the word would offend his black friends and colleagues.
Malema is currently on trial for the singing the song "Shoot The Boer", a song argued to be inciting violence upon ethnic Boers, white South Africans, particularly farmers. Some people see the murder of Eugène Terre'Blanche

Eugène Terre'Blanche

Eugène Ney Terre'Blanche was a former member of South Africa's Herstigte Nasionale Party who founded the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging during the apartheid era...

 as an example of violence provoked by this song.

Steve Hofmeyr has been publicly criticised by Frans Cronje, who is the deputy CEO of the South African Institute of Race Relations, an organization labeled as "one of the oldest liberal institutions in the country". Cronje has rejected Steve Hofmeyr's actions by saying that "if you think that we can fight racism with racism then you are as much of a fool as you are racist."

Personal life

Hofmeyr married actress Natasha Sutherland, whom he had met on the set of Egoli: Place of Gold

Egoli: Place of Gold

Egoli: Place of Gold is a long-running bilingual South African soap opera which first aired on M-Net on 6 April 1992. South African television's first daily soap opera, on 3 December 1999 Egoli became the first South African television program in any genre to reach 2,000 episodes. As of 3 August...

 in 1998, and they had a son, Sebastian, born 13 December 2001 (Hofmeyr also has a few children by other women.). The couple was divorced after reports of numerous affairs dominated Hofmeyr's time in the spotlight in 2008.

In December 2008, Hofmeyr allegedly assaulted Ms Esmaré Weideman, editor of "Huisgenoot" (a popular Afrikaans magazine), by pouring a cup of cold tea over her at the Miss South Africa finals. He was said to have blamed her and two other journalists for his divorce from Sutherland.

Publications

In November 2007 Hofmeyr released a book titled Jêmbekseep, published by Griffel Books, containing quotes from newspaper articles, magazines etc. as well as discussions from Hofmeyr's personal blog page. His autobiography, Mense van my asem, was published by Zebra Press in October 2008. He has also published a book of verse called Valkuns.

Stage Productions

• Summer Holiday
• Joseph and the amazing technicolor dreamcoat
• Die Soen
• Sound of Music
• Dis Hoe Dit Was - Die Steve Hofmeyr Storie

Movies

• Kampus (lead actor)
• Agter Elke Man (lead actor)
• No Hero (lead actor)
• A Case of Murder
  A Case of Murder (film)
  A Case of Murder is a 2004 action/crime/thriller film which had its release in South Africa on 2 July 2004.It was based on a true story of a hideous murder, where the victim's body was disposed of in a suitcase....
  
   as Jack Norkem

TV

• Dis-hoe-dit-is met Steve (Kyknet
  KykNet
  kykNET is a South African television channel, which broadcasts in Afrikaans. Owned by pay-TV operator M-Net, it was launched on the DStv satellite service in October 1999.-Programs:Some of the programs broadcast on kykNET:*DKNT*Trompie...
  
   TV-show)
• Proesstraat
  Proesstraat
  Proesstraat is an Afrikaans Television-Show which airs on kykNet based on the German improvisational comedy show Schillerstrasse...
  
   as a karaoke
  Karaoke
  is a form of interactive entertainment or video game in which amateur singers sing along with recorded music using a microphone and public address system. The music is typically a well-known pop song minus the lead vocal. Lyrics are usually displayed on a video screen, along with a moving symbol,...
  
   machine repairman (Kyknet
  KykNet
  kykNET is a South African television channel, which broadcasts in Afrikaans. Owned by pay-TV operator M-Net, it was launched on the DStv satellite service in October 1999.-Programs:Some of the programs broadcast on kykNET:*DKNT*Trompie...
  
   TV-show)

Books

• Jêmbekseep (November 2007)
• Mense van my asem - Zebra Press (October 2008) (autobiography)
• Vier briewe vir Jan Ellis - Zebra Press

Albums

• Beautiful Noise

1. Sweet Caroline
2. I Am... I Said
3. Shilo
4. I'm A Believer
5. Kentucky Woman
6. Cracklin' Rosie
7. Song Sung Blue
8. Longfellow Serenade
9. You Don't Bring Me Flowers - (Duet With Dana Winner)
10. Beautiful Noise
11. Forever In Blue Jeans
12. Hello Again
13. Love On The Rocks
14. Holly Holy
15. Red Red Wine
16. Headed For The Future
17. Desiree
18. America
19. The Story Of My Life
    • Decade of Steve Hofmeyer
20. Casablanca
21. Daar Waar Jy Moet Wees
22. Love's The Light
23. Gatvol
24. Cross My Heart
25. As Jy My Wil Hê
26. Emotionally Candid
27. Hand Aan Hand
28. Changes
29. Did She
30. Slot
    • Desertbound
31. Yours
32. Know Me
33. Ghetto Song
34. Laaste Lag
35. Hand Upon My Shoulder
36. Desertbound
37. Alles Vir Niks
38. 7 Steelway
39. Born To Be
40. Mine
    • Die Bok Kom Weer
41. Die Bok Kom Weer
42. Ek Bly 'n Bok
43. O Liewe Bobbie
44. Bliksem
45. Skeeloog Schutte
46. Bring It Home
47. Bokke Bokke
48. Loftus
49. Tjollie
50. Bokveld Toe
51. Medlie
52. Dolla
53. Anthems
    • Die Treffers - The Hits
54. Want net ons weet
55. Prove me wrong
56. Ek weet jy weet
57. Know me
58. Agter elke man
59. The last time you came along
60. Kyk hoe lyk ons nou
61. Lose when you lie
62. Deur jou vingers
63. She's a woman
64. Ek ken jou soms
65. No hero
66. Die sprokie
67. Rosie
68. Altyd by jou
69. Laaste lag
70. Hand upon my shoulder
    • Engele Om Ons
71. Toe Jy Hier Was
72. One Shot At This Heaven
73. Assegaai
74. Engele Om Ons
75. Wordsworth's Dream
76. Liewe Ma
77. Sunday Morning Coming Down
78. Wie Sal?
79. How 'Bout I Let You Go?
80. Jolliefontein Toe
81. Bengal Lights
82. Gee Jy Wat Jy Neem
83. Papa
84. Summer Of '69
    • Grootste Treffers Vol.2
85. You Got Me
86. Liefling
87. Die Bloubul
88. Verstaan Mekaar
89. Love's The Light
90. Kiss Me
91. Daar Waar Jy Moet Wees
92. Die Kind
93. Forgiveness
94. Dis Hoe Dit Is
95. You Don't Bring Me Flowers
96. Ver Hiervandaan
97. Heart
98. Casablanca
99. Close To You
100. Gatvol
101. By My (Tjollie)
102. Die Bok (Kom Weer)
103. O Liewe Bobby
     • Laurika Rauch and Steve Hofmeyr

Duets by Laurika Rauch

Laurika Rauch

Laurika Rauch is a South African singer who sings in the Afrikaans as well as English language.She had a hit single in 1979 with Kinders van die Wind , written by the late Koos du Plessis...

 and Steve Hofmeyer

• No Hero

1. No Hero
2. Nothing At All
3. As Is
4. She's A Woman
5. Alles Is Myne
6. Kim's Theme
7. Dabbel Trabbel
8. Gone Too Long
9. Ek Weet Jy Weet
10. Love Theme
    • Only Me
11. Only Me
12. Agter Elke Man
13. Never Say Goodbye
14. Lose When You Lie
15. Ek En Jy
16. You & Me & The Night
17. Ek Ken Jou Soms
18. Hard To Find
19. Wag (allegro In F)
20. Love For Love (duet With Irene Van Wyk)
    • Southern Cross
21. Dis Hoe Dit Is
22. Kiss Me
23. Ver Hiervandaan
24. Heart
25. I'll Be The One (Duet With Irene Van Wyk)
26. Dolla (Feat. Anton Goosen
    Anton Goosen
    Anton Goosen is a South African musician and songwriter singing in Afrikaans who has been active for more than 30 years and has toured internationally. He has received numerous awards and has been credited for writing the first Afrikaans rock song 'Blommetjie gedenk aan my'...
    
    )
27. Not One Thing
28. Don't Be Cruel
29. Maybe
30. Koos Doep
31. Reasons (Natasha's Song) (Duet With Manuel Escorcio
    Manuel Escorcio
    Manuel Escorcio is a South African tenor who performs in Afrikaans, English and Portuguese. Escorcio was born in Lourenzo Marques, Mozambique but started his musical career at the Helderberg College in Somerset-West, South Africa when he was 16 years of age....
    
    )
32. Southern Cross
33. By My
34. Wie?
    • Steve
35. You Know
36. Ek Weet Jy Weet
37. Rosie
38. The Last Time You Came Along
39. Staan Hier By My
40. Never Say 'no'
41. Die Sprokie
42. Hoe Voel Jy Nou?
43. All For Real
44. My Deure Bly Oop
    • Toeka
45. Jou Hart Is Weer Myne
46. I Need Someone
47. I Wanna Live
48. Master Jack (Four Jacks & A Jill
    Four Jacks and a Jill
    Four Jacks and a Jill is a South African folk rock ensemble. They originally formed in 1964 without a "Jill" under a different name. Later they added lead singer Glenys Lynne and changed the group's name. In South Africa, they had a hit song, "Timothy". In 1968 they cracked the American charts with...
    
    )
49. Pampoen
50. You Asked Me To
51. Liefling
52. Hasie
53. Sunday Girl
54. Liefde Is 'n Stille Rivierstroom (Nick Taylor
    Nick Taylor
    Nick Taylor is a professional squash player and squash coach from the United Kingdom....
    
    )
55. Gypsy Girl
56. Ou Kraalliedjie (Groep Twee)
57. 4 x 4
58. So You Win Again
59. Appel Van My Oog
60. Cry To Me
61. Heart (Gene Rockwell
    Gene Rockwell
    Gene Rockwell was a South African singer. His 1965 rendition of Heart went directly to the top of the LM Radio Top 20.- History :Gene was born Gert Smith in 1944 in the town of Krugersdorp in the then Transvaal province of South Africa....
    
    )
62. She's A Woman
63. Amper
64. Amazing Grace
    • Toeka 2
65. Reik Na Die Sterre
66. I Won't Give Up
67. Sproetjies
68. Delta Dawn
69. Glimlag
70. Michael Rows The Boat Ashore
71. Tips Of My Fingers
72. Transkaroo (Cupido
    Cupido
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    )
73. Gezoem Van Die Bye (Des and Dawn Lindberg)
74. Sonder Jou
75. Kinders Van Die Wind (Koos du Plessis
    Koos du Plessis
    Jacobus Johannes du Plessis was a prominent South African singer-songwriter and poet, colloquially known as Koos Doep...
    
    )
76. Million Drums
77. Die Wilgerboom
78. Liefde Is My Nooi Se Naam
79. Too Late To Say Goodbye
80. Dankie
81. As Jy My Nou Kon Sien
82. In Die RSA
83. Maak Die Bulle Almal Bokke
84. Tjoklitbeksoentjies
    • Tribute
85. Prove Me Wrong (Prove Me Right)
86. Suspicious Minds
87. Deur Jou Vingers
88. Games People Play
89. Why Me Lord
90. Altyd By Jou
91. Man On The Moon
92. Cry To Me
93. Sweet Caroline
94. Don't Believe
95. Man On The Moon
    • Tribute - Vol.2
96. Holly Holy
97. Kyk Hoe Lyk Ons Nou
98. I'd Love You To Want Me
99. Want Net Ons Weet
100. You've Lost That Loving Feeling
101. Burning Bridges
102. Photograph
103. Edge Of Love
104. Mammy Blue
105. Yesterday's Hero
106. Darlin'
107. Put Your Hand In The Hand / Glory Glory Hallelujah (Medley)
     • True To You
108. Not Letting Go
109. True To You
110. Gimme Tonite
111. Verstaan Mekaar
112. Go / S Tonite
113. Om My Te Probeer
114. You Don't Bring Me Flowers
115. Forgiveness
116. Die Goed In My
117. Die Wasgoed Song
118. Vroeger Bracht Je Bloemen
119. Die Kind
120. Raindance
121. Threshold
     • Grootste Platinum Treffers

CD 1

1. Laaste Lag
2. Know Me
3. Agter Elke Man
4. Hand Upon My Shoulder
5. Lose When U Lie
6. Ek Ken Jou Soms
7. Ghetto Song
8. Ek Weet Jy Weet
9. Rosie
10. Prove Me Wrong (Prove Me Right)
11. Deur Jou Vingers*
12. Kyk Hoe Lyk Ons Nou*
13. No Hero
14. Dis Hoe, Last Time U Came Along
15. Die Sprokie
16. Prove Dit Is
17. Kiss Me
18. Ver Hiervandaan
19. By My (Tjollie)
20. You Got Me

CD 2

1. Daar Waar Jy Moet Wees
2. Loves The Light
3. Gatvol
4. Gimme Tonite
5. Verstaan Mekaar
6. Die Kind
7. Forgiveness
8. Assegaai
9. Engele Om Ons
10. Toe Jy Hier Was
11. Amper
12. As Jy My Nou Kon Sien
13. Maak Die Bulle Almal Bokke
14. In Die RSA
15. Trein Na Margate (met Christo & Cobus)*
16. Die Bloubul
17. Pampoen
18. My Diefie My Duifie*
19. Doepading*
20. Skote Petoors*
21. Kaapse Draai (met [Nádine]*
22. Bly (Met Karin Hougaardt)*

DVDs

• Toeka - Nag Van Die Legendes

1. Jou Hart Is Weer Myne - Steve Hofmeyr
2. Gypsy Girl - Steve Hofmeyr
3. Love & Roses - Sunette Bridges and Bles Bridges
   Bles Bridges
   Bles Bridges , born Lawrence John Gabriel Bridges, was a much loved South African singer. He became known as Bles Bridges, as his Irish granddad called him Bles , due to his very thin hair from an early age....
   
   
4. I Wanna Live - Steve Hofmeyr and Tommy Oliver
   Tommy Oliver (musician)
   Tommy Oliver was an American musician, bandleader, and music producer.Oliver arranged and produced albums for artists such as Doris Day, Edie Adams, Wayne Newton, Donny and Marie Osmond, Charles Boyer, Frankie Avalon, Joey Heatherton, Pat Boone, Kenny Rogers, John Denver, Joanie Sommers, Denny...
   
   
5. Honderd Jaar - Tommy Oliver
6. You Asked Me To - Steve Hofmeyr and Bobby Angel
7. Medley: I Walk The Line / On The Road Again / Rose Garden / Gentle On My Mind - Bobby Angel
8. Ou Kraalliedjie - Steve Hofmeyr, Carike Keuzenkamp and Gert Van Tonder
9. Medley: Timothy / Kaalvoet In Die Reen / Heidi / Dit Reen In Tsitsikamma / Hoeka Toeka - Carike Keuzenkamp
10. Medley: Ek Is Lief Vir Die Wereld / Die Padda Wou Gaan Opsit / Dink Jy Darem Nog Aan My / Daar's Niks Soos Ware Liefde
11. Liefling - Steve Hofmeyr
12. Hasie - Steve Hofmeyr and Al Debbo
    Al Debbo
    Al Debbo was a South African comedian, singer and actor. As one of the most famous artists of his generation he made an enormous contribution to Afrikaans music and culture.- Early life :...
    
    
13. Sonbrilletjies - Al Debbo
    Al Debbo
    Al Debbo was a South African comedian, singer and actor. As one of the most famous artists of his generation he made an enormous contribution to Afrikaans music and culture.- Early life :...
    
    
14. Maak Die Bulle Almal Bokke - Steve Hofmeyr
15. Medley: Single Boy / Tell Laura I Love Her / Ave Maria / Patches - Jody Wayne
16. Million Drums - Dennis East
17. Pampoen - Steve