| Name |
Locnville |
| Height |
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| Naionality |
South African |
| Date of Birth |
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| Place of Birth |
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa |
| Famous for |
Singing |
Locnville is a South African electro hop music duo. Identical twin brothers Andrew and Brian Chaplin formed Locnville in Cape Town, South Africa, in 2009. The twins are singer-songwriters, song producers and musicians, in addition to being guitarists, drummers and business entrepreneurs.
Their debut studio album titled Sun In My Pocket was released in South Africa in February 2010 and had proven to become a major success, peaking at #1 on the RISA South African Albums Chart and later winning them the award for “best newcomer” at the 2010 MK Awards.
Their second studio album titled Running To Midnight was released on July 1, 2011, including a high-definition music video for one of the album’s tracks titled “Stars Above You”.
The twins are related to the late Charlie Chaplin (their grandfather was the first cousin of Charlie Chaplin).
At a young age the twins started performing at events in and around Cape Town and it didn’t take long before they were discovered by South African record producer Gabi Le Roux who introduced them to Khayelitsha-based artist Given Phike. Soon the twins and Given Phike created the musical trio III (Three).
On August 27, 2007, III released a twelve track album, titled What They Say, on a South African mobile phone based social networking application called MXit. They were the first group in South Africa to release music in this format and in this sense made local music history. The album went onto to achieve double platinum download sales status, selling over 500,000 copies in South Africa. The group disbanded soon after and Andrew and Brian Chaplin went on to create Locnville, the name of which is still a mystery, however the twins did say it has to do with their background and the fact that they had lived in both the United States and South Africa.
On July 1, 2011, Locnville released their second studio album titled Running To Midnight. The brothers started an official “one-hundred day countdown”, a move made to create a hype towards the build-up of the release. The move proved to be a successful one with social media networks, including Facebook and Twitter, being abuzz with the news of its release. Various competitions to encourage the purchasing of Running To Midnight where also created.
The new album was written and recorded over 9 months in Cape Town, the USA, and whilst on the road promoting their debut album across Europe.
In an interview, one of the twins, Andrew, stated that the new album was “much more relevant to where we are now”. The other twin, Brian, added that the new album is “not our previous album”; saying in so many words that the new album brought with it new sound and “a seriously intense and fun story”.
