Eric Sell, better known as EES (also: eesy-ees/EeS/EeS, "Easy Eric Sell"), is a

German Namibian German Namibians (german: Deutschnamibier) are a community of people descended from ethnic German colonists who settled in present-day Namibia. In 1883, the German trader Adolf Lüderitz bought what would become the southern coast of Namibia fro ...

Kwaito Kwaito is a music genre that emerged in Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa, during the 1990s. It is a variant of house music that features the use of African sounds and samples. Kwaito songs occur at a slower tempo range than other styles of ...

artist and rapper. Sell was born in

Windhoek Windhoek (, , ) is the capital and largest city of Namibia. It is located in central Namibia in the Khomas Highland plateau area, at around above sea level, almost exactly at the country's geographical centre. The population of Windhoek in 20 ...

on 5 October 1983. He lives both in

, Namibia's capital, and

Cologne Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and 3.6 millio ...

, Germany. His texts are written in a mixture of

Afrikaans Afrikaans (, ) is a West Germanic language that evolved in the Dutch Cape Colony from the Dutch vernacular of Holland proper (i.e., the Hollandic dialect) used by Dutch, French, and German settlers and their enslaved people. Afrikaans g ...

and English. He also makes frequent use of Namlish and Namibian German (''Südwesterdeutsch''), the German dialect spoken in Namibia, and he popularised the term ''Nam-Slang'' for it.

Awards

Won

*2008 Sanlam NBC Music Awards: Best Rock/Alternative Artist *2009 MTV Africa Music Awards: Listener Choice Award *2009

Namibian Music Awards The Namibian Music Awards (NMA), is a Namibian award show that annually honors established recording artists. The award was established in 2006 in order to create and provide a suitable musical entertainment and promotional platform for Namibi ...

: Artist of the Year *2011

Namibian Annual Music Awards The Namibian Annual Music Awards (NAMA) ceremony was the biggest awards ceremony in Namibia. It was established in 2011 by MTC Namibia and the Namibian Broadcasting Corporation (NBC). They would award a NAMA trophy to musicians in recogni ...

: Best international achievement *2012

: Best Music Video & Best Collaboration *

2012 Channel O Music Video Awards The 9th Annual Channel O Music Video Awards were held at Walter Sisulu Square in Kliptown, Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa on 17 November 2012. The nominees were unveiled at an announcement party in Johannesburg on 21 September 2012. Kenyan hip ...

: Best Kwaito Video ("Ayoba" with

Mandoza Mduduzi Edmund Tshabalala (17 January 1978 – 18 September 2016), also known as Mandoza, was a South African kwaito recording artist. He was known for his contributions to the Kwaito genre and his numerous hit singles, including "Nkalakatha" ...

)

Discography

* 2002 – Straight from NAM * 2003 – Bio-Lyrical Warfare (only South Africa) * 2003 – Yes-Ja (Das Album) * 2004 – Odyssey Cru * 2004 – 061 for LIFE! * 2005 – Wo is die Coolbox? * 2006 – NAM FlaVa! * 2007 – Sharp, Sharp! * 2008 – Awee! * 2011 – Megaphone Ghazzie * 2012 – The Remixes (Raw & Unmastered) * 2012 – Da Gehn Wir (feat. T-zon) * 2013 – IF Not, Why Not! * 2014 – Authentic Rebel (feat. M-Poser Boss)

Films and books

*''The Kwaito-Documentary'' *''Esisallesoreidt'' (approximately: ''EverythingIsAllRight''), a humorous dictionary Südwesterdeutsch–German

References

External links

EES , Afro Lifestyle Music SoundYES-JA!“ Die KWAITO Documentary - Blog , Museke

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{{DEFAULTSORT:EES 1983 births Living people Kwaito musicians Namibian hip hop musicians 21st-century Namibian male singers People from Windhoek