Koos Kombuis’ New Green “Fokkol” Song

February 8th, 2010 by Chris

Singer, songwriter and author Koos Kombuis had a huge hit with his “Fokkol” song a few years ago. He’s back with a new version – but this time his gripe isn’t with service delivery, it’s with our trashing of the environment. Listen to “Die Groen Fokkol Song”:

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After a creative spurt of two books and two CDs in the space of two years, Koos Kombuis has come to the point in his life where he needed to step back and look at the bigger picture.
“I have had some surprising reactions to my recent biography of the Voelvry era,” he admitted. “Instead of bringing musicians together for a common purpose, it has caused more divisions. It seems as if not everyone remembers that era in the same way, and the differences of opinion are far greater than I imagined.”
Koos says that he felt that musicians needed a larger focus to help them forget about local politics, the past, and the old forms of protest. “The issues at stake right now are so much bigger than the things which divided us in the past. It is no longer relevant to worry about who did what to whom, and who disliked whom, for whatever reason. We are living in a time of global crisis.”