Bio

Julian was born in the Mother City and grew up in Parow Valley.  He matriculated in 2003 from The Settlers High School and during 2004 (his gap year) he did hospitality and promotions/marketing work for various companies.  Towards end 2004 he performed at Artscape in the musical ‘Annie get your Gun’ staged by the Cape Town Gilbert & Sullivan Society.  From years 2005 to 2007 he studied at the Tshwane University of Technology from where he graduated in 2008 with the National Diploma in Musical Theatre.  His first professional role was that of Chululongkorn, the son of the king in the well-known musical, ‘The King and I’ written by Rodgers & Hammerstein which played to packed houses at the Johannesburg Civic Centre during January to February 2008.  Mid-year 2008 he performed in Dubai in a children’s game show and play party, staged by Millennium Entertainment International.  End 2008 he landed the role of ‘Dopey’ in Janice Honeyman’s “Snowhite” pantomime.  In 2009 he toured the country with two educational theatre productions, to end the year at the Johannesburg Civic with ‘Pinocchio’. 

During 2010 Julian explored his own theatrical work and entered the corporate entertainment arena where after he returned to Cape Town to study film and video at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology.  He entered and won the 2011 Good Hope FM radio DJ search for CPUT Bellville campus but as luck would have it, he was only a finalist. Though two weeks later he received a call from KFM to do the ‘grave-yard’ shift for the month of July.  In just over a year and a half he was steering closer to his dream of becoming a singer/song writer.   2013 saw him head out to Namibia to perform in a corporate show called ‘The Best Party Show… Ever!’ staged by Events Unlimited.

In September 2014 he played the semi-lead role of Ozzimba in the musical, Rockville2069.  For the past two years, he has written his own compositions and is on his way to recording and putting out his genre of music - acoustic soul.      When he is not on stage, he works on his one-man show and teaches Capoeira to students and adults at Stellenbosch University and a studio in Brackenfell.