Ike Moriz

[13] Moriz also played minor roles and cameos in international feature films such as Alfie (2004), Shanghai Knights (2003) and Love Actually (2003), as well as in South African and British TV series such as EastEnders, Strike Back: Project Dawn (2011), Backstage (2006) and The Bill.

[16] With national television and radio interviews, music videos, appearances in Cape Town and Johannesburg, and articles in magazines and daily newspapers, he quickly became known nationwide and was voted one of the country's top five singers in 2006.

[19] Moriz performs regularly with a variety of accompanying musicians in Cape Town and Johannesburg, e.g., at Oude Libertas Amphitheatre, the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront, Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden, numerous hotels and various clubs, theatres and wine farms.

[21] In 2008, Moriz, who was previously known mainly as an indie pop and rock singer, began to explore a variety of other styles, starting with the release of his Stardust trilogy (2009), which consisted of three albums in the swing and jazz genre.

[22] In the same year he published the Christmas album Starry Night, for which he also filmed a music video in Germany at the Hamburg observatory where he also performed several times at the vision sternwARTe' festival on occasion of its 100-year anniversary.

[31][32][33] Moriz returned to Northern Germany for another tour from late June to early August 2023 performing with saophonists Kurt Buschmann and Leandro Saint-Hill as well as South African pianist Charl Du Plessis.

[38][39][40][41] In South Africa, Moriz collaborates, plays and tours with renowned studio musicians and music groups such as the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra,[42] the Ike Moriz Swing Band, saxophonist Willie Van Zyl, guitarists Willem Moller, Gregory Schoeman, Gorm Helfjord, Alvin Dyers and David Leadbetter, drummers Kevin Gibson, Paul Tizzard, Ivan Bell, Shaun Michau, Barry van Zyl (Johnny Clegg Band) and Tony & Frank Paco, pianists Andrew Ford, Charl Du Plessis, Amanda Tiffin, Muriel Marco, Jason Reolon and the bass players Robert Nel, Wesley Rustin, Emilio Gassibe, Dave Ridgeway, and Charles Lazar.

During his career, Ike Moriz has performed in eighteen countries: South Africa, UK, Germany, Namibia, Morocco, Spain, Italy, Greece, France, Portugal, Senegal, Malta, Turkey, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Canary Islands, Botswana and Belgium.

Together with the photographer and writer Kiara Worth, Moriz founded and championed the environmental protection interest group 'Fresh Air For Hout Bay' in 2014, for which he wrote, recorded and published the protest song "Lucky Star Ain't What You Are".

[47][48][49] During the Cape Peninsula mountain fires in March 2015, Moriz composed an anthem for the South African Volunteer Wildfire Services, called Heroes In Red to raise funds for the organisation.

with free concerts and played at charity events to help fund epilepsy research at the Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital in Cape Town with the ‘Alexi and Me’ campaign.

[54][55] In September 2008 Ike Moriz appeared as one of the main acts of the ‘Zimfest’ together with other well-known bands such as Freshlyground and The Rudimentals in order to endorse the work of the NGO PASSOP (People Against Suffering, Oppression and Poverty).

Ike Moriz at Castle Reinbek in 2022
Ike Moriz on the channel NDR 3 stage at the Bergedorf city festival, Germany, July 2018
Ike Moriz Swing Band concert in Paarl , South Africa (2020)
Ike Moriz and his wife Madri, Cape Town Stadium (2015)