About us

​Born in the Bush has been established as a service provider to assist African musicians and effectively supports them with a highly skilled team that helps to grow both audiences and revenue streams. 
Born in the bush primarily focuses on the following areas of artist management:
  • Overall artist strategy
  • Rights administration
  • Revenue reviews
  • Social media analytic analysis and management
  • Development of digital revenue streams from Facebook live, to streaming revenue
  • Synch placement and development
  • Identifying the most attractive territories/markets for specific acts/producers/composers
When it comes to art, money is an unimportant detail. It just happens to be a huge unimportant detail!” Iggy Pop
Our business model is to share incremental revenue, so we don’t charge against revenue that you the artist are already getting.

Our founders bring a range of skills to bear:
  • Barry Van Zyl – Music industry expertise, Business and strategy development
  • Simon Trupp – Consulting, analytics and strategy
  • Bronwen Trupp – Photography, Videography, Editing
  • Brian Palmer – creative direction and management
We also have the vision and ability to export African artists to international markets, through developing contacts, digital analytics and strategy.

DogHouse studio

With our partners at DogHouse studio we offer professional recording. The studio has two acoustically treated rooms, one large live room and a smaller instrument/vocal tracking room.

Doghouse Studio is a digital studio with Focusrite Clarret pre-amps and a MAC/Logic workstation environment.

All gear is available upon request:
    Microphones: u87’s, AEA R84’s, AKG 414’s, SM 57’s galore!
    Amplifiers: Laney valve amps, Marshall etc..
    Drums: typically 70’s/80’s japanese made gear (TAMA etc..) - changes all the time!

We can offer facilities with or without a studio tracking engineer…

Get In Touch
If you are an established artist that would benefit from the assistance and support of a world class revenue and audience development team then please contact us to arrange an initial discussion - click to connect!