Victor Khojane, better known as Dr Victor or Dr Vic, is a
pop
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and
R&B musician, who was born in
Kimberley
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, South Africa.
Dr Victor: biography
Accessed 9 June 2013
Career
Khojane began playing when he was a student, in a band called CC Beat, mainly influenced by afropop
African popular music (also styled Afropop, Afro-pop or Afro pop), like African traditional music, is vast and varied. Most contemporary genres of African popular music build on cross-pollination with western popular music. Many genres of po ...
stars such as Blondie and Papa, Harare Mambo Band and Jonathan Butler, as well as some Afro-American acts (mainly the Jackson Five). In 1984, CC Beat began playing nightclubs in Johannesburg; at the time, they managed to sign with label CCP Records
CCP Records (originally an acronym for Clive Calder Production) is a South African music entertainment company founded by Clive Calder and Ralph Simon. It is a production company. They envisioned the company while working for EMI South Africa in ...
(an affiliate of EMI), but the contract was later dismissed. Another label, Dephon Records, put them under contract shortly thereafter. CC Beat changed their name to 'Taxi' and did sessions for Lucky Dube and other bands.
In 1991, the band changed label again, signing for independent label
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CSR. They recorded their first album, an Eddy Grant tribute entitled ''The Rasta Rebels''. This work was highly successful, to the point that they decided to change the name of the band to Rasta Rebels. At about the same time, Khojane adopted the pseudonym Dr Victor.
Dr Victor then recorded a few solo albums, such as ''Badayo'', ''Hello Afrika'', and ''One Goal, One Wish''. All these works were quite successful in South Africa, and Dr Victor was invited to open for international stars such as Paul Simon
Paul Frederic Simon (born October 13, 1941) is an American musician, singer, songwriter and actor whose career has spanned six decades. He is one of the most acclaimed songwriters in popular music, both as a solo artist and as half of folk roc ...
, Gloria Estefan
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and Janet Jackson
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. In 1997, Dr Victor's album ''Faya'' was his first work to get international attention, selling well in France, Mexico, Japan and the Middle East.
At the end of the 1990
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s, Dr Victor reunited the Rasta Rebels, and a collection, ''The Best of the Rasta Rebels'' with one unreleased track, "I Love to Truck", was released. Both the collection and the new song, published as a single, sold well. In the following years, Dr Victor has alternated solo productions (such as ''Sunshine Daze'' in 2003 and ''If You Wanna Be Happy'' in 2004) and Rasta Rebels albums (''When Somebody Loves You Back'', 2006).
Discography
* ''The Rasta Rebels'' (1991
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)
* ''Badayo''
* ''Hello Afrika''
* ''Faya'' (1997
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)
* ''The Best of the Rasta Rebels'' (raccolta)
* ''Stress'' (2000
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)
* ''Sunshine Daze'' (2003
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)
* ''If You Wanna Be Happy'' (2004
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)
* ''When Somebody Loves You Back'' (2006
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), Electromode
References
Dr Vic and the Rasta Rebels
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South African musicians
Living people
People from Kimberley, Northern Cape
Year of birth missing (living people)