AWARDS
LEGENDS OF ARTS
2022
OVERALL INSTRUMENTAL WINNER
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HERE
ONLINE MUSICTALENT SHOWCASE
2022
BEST CONTEMPORARY
COMPOSITION
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die kraal
KUNSTEFEES
2022
INSTRUMENTAL WINNER
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OVIE-VIBZ
Music School
2023
BEST SENIOR SINGER
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AFRIKAANSE
KUNSVERENIGING
1990-1995
VARIOUS CERTIFICATES OVER THE YEARS INCLUDING A GOLD MEDALLION
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HOëRSKOOL HENDRIK
VERWOERD
1996-1999
VARIOUS CERTIFICATES OVER THE YEARS
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BEELD PRETORIA
EISTEDDFOD
1999
SONGWRITER: Highschool
[B/silver]
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ATKV
2018
LUCAS MAREE SONGWORKSHOP
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biography
Vita Lu (Vee-ta Loe) is a Songwriter & Composer from Pretoria, South Africa. She always had a passion for music since being a little girl and started classical piano lessons from the age of six. From 1990 to 1995 she entered the “Afrikaanse Kunsvereniging Kunswedstryde” eight times and became a finalist once. Her interest in musical instruments didn’t stop there. She also learned to play the Classical Guitar and the Flute and tried playing her father’s Harmonica and Bisonoric Accordion. She also sang in the church choir where she attended church.
As a young teenager her interest in Pop and Rock music motivated her to write her own songs. She has already written more than 60 songs and 15 instrumental tracks to date. One of her first songs (still unreleased) received a silver certificate from Eistedfedd for Songwriter: High School.
Vita Lu has been a Christian all her life and grew up in a Christian home. She strongly believes her talent is a gift from God.
Struggling to make name as a songwriter (while keeping an entirely different day job), she decided to create the Virtual Rock Band vital curv. Her day job is a career in a qualified profession, and therefor she can't travel around to perform, because she travels around for the career that makes money.
In 2012, with the support of session musicians, she recorded her band’s self-titled EP debut album at Beat in Time Studios (Pretoria, South Africa) owned by Bruce Wallace. On 23 March 2013 the album was released.
She also started writing Afrikaans music and in March 2017 released her first Afrikaans Pop Single ”Voel Die Reën”, followed by "Oproep na die Hemel" on 4 December 2021, and "Noorder Kleure" on 15 July 2022.
Her first Electronic Instrumental song "Woeste Oseaan", was released on 20 November 2020, and "Herfs Blare" on 7 April 2021.
“It Shows - Remix” is her first remix, and her third EDM release. The original Rock song was released in 2013 under her Virtual Rock Band - vital curv. This song also marks an important milestone for Vita Lu, as it is the 10th song released with and produced by the legendary drummer, Bruce Wallace. He has earned international recognition and endorsement from Zildjian Cymbals and Mapex Drums.
Her latest song, Versekerd, is one that is very near to her heart. Not just because it is her first Contemporary Christian song, but also because she had the honor of being able to make Jason Bradley's voice heard one last time. The most beautiful Country voice full of heart and feeling!
Tune into your favourite radio station, and you might here her songs play.
"All my songs form part of a story about the road I had travelled through life, events in my own life as well as events observed in other people's lives. Every adventure I go through forms a poem in my mind. I believe my music has a purpose: to honor God with the talent He gave me."