SITHEMBISO INSTRO HERIMBI A&R/ COMPOSER/ PRODUCER/ SOUND ENGINEER

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2 1 SITHEMBISO INSTRO HERIMBI BIOGRAPHY WORK BACKGROUND Sithembiso Herimbi has been instrumental in the creation of Urban South African music. This Vaal triangle bred producer goes by the alias Instro. Sithembiso has spent 2015 & 2016 producing and managing music in partnership with creative agency Kool Out Concepts on variouss projects, includingg the Sprite Refresh project in 2015 and the Castle Lager Broville campaign in in 2014, Instro produced the majority of Reason s third album, Audio High Definition. In the same year, he lent a hand in label mate Tumi Molekane s 3rd album titled Return Of The King by producing: The Intro featuring superstar AKA, Visa featuring Kalawa Jazzmee s Busiswa, and Hello Kitty featuring Nadia Nakai, Gigi Lamayne & Nova. Lyric Theatre at Gold Reef City Casino. Y-Academy Graduate: Y-FM Internship Program. Final Mixed a season of The Grind Tour, A television show done by Black Brain Productions which aired on Soweto TV. Black Rage Productions as the resident producer & sound engineer. Motif Records - Resident Sound Engineer, Music Producer as well as A&R Instro played a pivotal role in the resurgence of Neo-Soul Siren, Wanda Baloyi, when he produced her single featuring Reason called Thinking. When newcomer, Muse, was named the winner of Idols 2013, Instro acquired production credits on the talent show victor s first single I Still Feel It and produced his song, Laphong Phuma Khona SOFTWARE KNOWLEDGE Ableton Live Cubase Nuendo Adobe Audition & Pro Tools

3 2 BRIEF HISTORY This is just a taste of a Smorgasbord of genre-bending skills 2008 that Instro has exhibited in the years following his graduation in sound engineering from the allenby campus in Johannesburg, Instro 2008 is both producer and a mixing engineer In 2012, Instro mixed 5 songs not the All things Grey album by the multi award winning artist, Kabomo. Off this album, Instro Produced Against All Odds & Things We Cannot Hide For the 2009 South African General Elections, Instro was enlisted as the producer of the critically acclaimed Healing In The Land Of Forgiving project which saw him work with Afro-Jazz Maestro, Ringo Madlingozi and legendary vocalist, Sibongile Khumalo. Instro has also lent his talents to canadian alternative soul artist, Zaki Ibrahim s Seminal album, Every Opportunity. Here, he recorded the album and produced Stand So Hard. In 2012 he mixed Generation XY and One Day by Kwaito king Kabelo Mabalane and mixed AKA s Jealousy and Kwesta s You Got It. He produced and engineered Nothende s Pheonix offering, I Love You and Promise Me off Reason s second album Audio 3D.

4 3 WORK Audio 3D Mixed engineered the whole project and produced Stay and I love you. Audio Rediﬁnition [Reason Season] Bump The Cheese Up Remix One of the executive producers. Recorded and mixed the album. Produced 5 of the 11 tracks including hit single Brand New featuring Skwatta Kamp. Audio High Deﬁnition The Reasoning Project Manager of the album. Produced and engineered 7 of the 14 tracks Produced the album. Engineered the album. SHOWLOVE PRESENTS KABOMO The All Love Album All Thing Grey Produced 5 of the 15 tracks. Engineered the compilation. AKA Mix engineered the album. Produced Things We Cant Hide and Against All Odds. Jealousy RICKY RICK MAX-HOBA Amantombazane Remix Travelling Man Produced the hit Grateful.

Love & Life Produced and mixed 2 of the 11

5 4 WORK TUMI MOLEKANE MISS NTHABI WANDA BALOYI Return of The King Welcome To Me Love & Life Produced and mixed 2 of the 11 tracks including popular song Visa featuring Kalawa Jazmee s Busiswa. Produced the album. Engineered the album. Produced the single Thinking featuring Reason TUMI MOLEKANE NOTHENDE Hello Hello Kitty Remix Rebirth Production and engineering. A&R. Produced and engineered the radio hit Remember Love. SOLO NOW AND STILL AFTER Dreams.A.Plenty NASA Compilation Project Mix engineered the album. Produced Time of Our Lives featuring Reason. Executive Producer. Produced the project. Engineered the project. MUSA The Dream Produced Laphong Phuma khona and I Still Feel It. ZAKI IBRAHIM OTELO BURNING Mixtape Soundtrack Every Opposite Recorded the entire project. Produced Stand So Hard. Produced the project alongside Tumi Molekane.

6 CONTACT REFERENCES Contact Details: / Info@promiselandent.co.za Address: 77 Commissioner Street Corner House Building Roof Top Floor Johannesburg 2001 MR. A. Dzino Outrageous Records Tell: Cell: dzinoster@gmail.com MR. Graham Brune (Operations Manager) Tell: Cell:

TONGOGARA:BATTLEKAT [THE BIOGRAPHY]

TONGOGARA:BATTLEKAT [THE BIOGRAPHY] Born on the 9th of January 1981 in Vereeniging, Tongogara Ntlokoa began his early childhood years living with his maternal family in Sharpeville situated in the Vaal