# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/koos-kombuis
# Generated: 2026-08-31T14:57:57.085Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/koos-kombuis"
name: "Koos Kombuis"
slug: "koos-kombuis"
description: "Koos Kombuis is a South African musician, singer, songwriter and writer who became famous as part of a group of anti-establishment maverick Afrikaans musicians, who, under the collective name of Voëlvry, toured campuses across South Africa in the 1980s, to \"liberate Afrikaans from the shackles of its past\". Fellow musicians of this movement were Johannes Kerkorrel and Bernoldus Niemand. They were a younger generation of Afrikaners who didn't believe in apartheid and didn't toe the ruling National Party line. This movement coined the term \"Alternative Afrikaner\" for themselves. Kombuis is something of an icon among certain South Africans who consider him a guru of Afrikaans rock music and father of non-conformist Afrikaans culture."
tagline: "South African musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Koos_Kombuis_(552075960).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1954-11-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           58.07
  momentum:             0.9102564102564102
  historical:           5.963969333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  108
  category: null
totalFollowers: 3240
platforms:
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/17183910782"
    handle:    "17183910782"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/6tj3rGjkpJ3Zw2tDOMnzGZ"
    handle:    "6tj3rGjkpJ3Zw2tDOMnzGZ"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.kooskombuis.co.za/"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCixErtDLIRpLN5sTYpOeLnA"
    handle:    "Koos Kombuis - Topic"
    followers: 3240
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/978273"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koos_Kombuis"
    title: "Koos Kombuis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koos_Kombuis"
    title: "Koos Kombuis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koos_Kombuis"
    title: "Koos Kombuis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koos_Kombuis"
    title: "Koos Kombuis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koos_Kombuis"
    title: "Koos Kombuis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/bcc38c17-3c3d-41e0-b649-9ebeca45a475"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q264520"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump