Biography

Funnyman Johan Brümmer, aka Fatman, was born to entertain people with his distinctive voice and larger-than-life personality. These characteristics were also instrumental in winning over the hearts of music lovers during the blind auditions of the second season of the Voice SA. The forty-six-year-old music teacher from Bela-Bela, with his signature boater hat, comes from a musical family. His dad was a freelance musician and his mother a police officer. He grew up in Toitskraal, just outside of Marble Hall, and their living room used to be flooded with all kinds of instruments. His passion for music was ignited at a young age, when he realized that he had the ability to entertain people. He made his stage debut at the age of ten and was only sixteen when he started performing at restaurants to earn an extra income. Although his father initially did not want him to pursue a career in music after school, he couldn’t be deterred and went on to study music at Pretoria Music Academy and Unisa. Fatman performed with singer, Pieter Smith, for seven years during the early 90’s, after which he and his wife left the city for the countryside to raise their children, Sanrico and Pedri. Music, however, remained his main source of passion and income over the years and he was overjoyed when his own children also took an interest to music and instruments.