Farryl Purkiss

Farryl Purkiss is a South Africanborn singersongwriter. Farryl first picked up the guitar when he was fifteen years old and began writing songs shortly after his sixteenth birthday. He selfreleased an EP in 2005 that created waves in his home town of Durban, and later that year he began talks with 2Feet Music. He was signed to 2Feet Music soon after and started performing heavily outside of South Africa, leading up to the release of his fulllength debut album, released in South Africa in 2007, to high acclaim, chart success and award nominations. He has since spent most of his time touring the world.

Purkiss was born in Durban, KwaZulu Natal and grew up in Umhlanga. Growing up, Purkiss attended Northwood High School where he dabbled in songwriting. At the age ofyears Purkiss received a treasured sound system that his father Robert Purkiss gave to him as a gift, the very same sound system that his father handed down to him. Purkiss almost immediately sold it to his neighbour for R200 and bought a cheap guitar instead. Byyears old he had composed his first song .

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