Van Jaarsveld played the lead character in the Afrikaans film Liefling – Die Movie, which was released in November 2010 by Hartiwood Studios South Africa and fetched R16 million at the local box office. He went on to release two more albums, “Wat Geld Nie Kan Koop Nie” and “Maak ‘n Wens” in 20, respectively.
That same year, “Spieëltjie”, a song from his second album, won Best Afrikaans Song at both the Huisgenot Tempo and Vonk Awards. In January 2010, Van Jaarsveld was awarded the Viewers’ Favourite Artist award for 2001 on DKNT, a local music program on DStv. Songs from the album include Spieëltjie and Net Vir Jou. Album sales reached platinum status within eight weeks, and have since reached double-platinum status with sales of 83,000 units. Van Jaarsveld wrote and composed each of the tracks on the album. His second album, Net Vir Jou, was released in 2009 by Coleske Artists. His first album, ‘n Duisend Ure, was released later that year and album sales reached gold status. In November 2006, Theuns Jordaan Productions offered Van Jaarsveld a recording contract. He won the award for Best Newcomer at the Huisgenoot Tempo Awards in 2006 after receiving three nominations from the Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees, Vonk (a local music magazine) and Huisgenoot Tempo magazine.Īs the winner of this category, Van Jaarsveld performed at the Skouspel Extravaganza hosted at Sun City, and continued to do until 2011. Van Jaarsveld started his professional singing career in high school when he was offered a singing record, and he released his first solo album in his last year. In 2018 van Jaarsveld and his family decide to leave their home in Pretoria and relocated to Ballito. He and his wife Annatjie van Jaarsveld, whom he married in January 2011, have two sons, Sion and Leben and a daughter named Armani.
As a child, he attended several primary schools before matriculating from Brits High School. He is the second of three children and has two sisters, one of whom is also a singer (Karlien van Jaarsveld). van Jaarsveld is 33 years old as of 2020. He was born on 6 March 1987 in Paarl, South Africa.
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