BassonLaas

Pretoria, South Africa

Growing up on a farm is South Africa, Basson had a very play full and happy childhood fuelling his imagination. Teaching himself how to play guitar he started writing his first songs when he was just 17 years old. But after years of mainly pursuing other things than music in his 20’s he decided that taking a leap on faith and trying his luck independent from a label to see if it could reap any fruits. After his first year performing fulltime in bars and restaurants, he had the opportunity to finally record his debut EP Good Morning Dreamer that released in Aug ’23 featuring his first single Tightly Bound. This year he’s got two singles lined up. The first, Worth Loving is to release this July on Friday the 19th and the second, Smile somewhere in November. “I’ve learned a lot from the release of Good Morning Dreamer that I will hopefully be able to push the boundary just a little bit more on the next releases” he says. “I realised how difficult it can be to get music heard in th