christine weir

Based in Cape Town

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Christine has had a very varied career – she has worked as a musical theatre performer, as a lounge singer and as an actress both on stage and on TV. She studied Drama at the Pretoria Tecnikon and for 8 years took private singing lessons with Sarie Lamprecht.

She and her brother Graham were the founder members of Not the Midnight Mass which in 2009 celebrated its 21st birthday by doing a season at Peter Toeriens Theatre on the Bay, and for which all the performers were awarded the Fleur de Cap Award for Best Performer in a Musical. Between 2002 and 2005 she was the soloist in the Sun City Extravaganza “Odyssey” and during this time she also sang for the Super Bowl Lotto Car Draw and worked as a lounge singer in the Sun City Casino. In 2007 she returned to the Sun City Casino to perform another season as a lounge singer.
In 2006 she performed her own solo show aboard the MS Melody which sailed from Naples to Durban and in the same year she performed with an orchestra in Songs from the Mediterranean at the Johannesburg Civic Theatre, conducted by Graham Scott.  She received a Naledi Best Performer Nomination for Songs from the Mediterranean.

She enjoys singing mellow music such as Eva Cassidy as well as the raunchy, comedic stuff performed by Bette Midler and she’s equally at home doing cabaret or musical theatre to singing background music.

She has been the solo singer for the road shows for large corporate companies; in 2008 she was the singer for the VW Road Show, in 2005 she went on tour with the WesBank 3 Billion Road Show, and in 2004 as part of Not the Midnight Mass she performed the theme song for the Momentum Life road show.

In 2009 and 2010 she worked as lounge singer at the 12 Apostles Hotel and Spa in Cape Town. She writes her own songs and she’s busy working on her own album.