User:Leon Retief/sandbox

Leon Retief performed in the eclectic group Boo! (band). The band played 800+ shows in 7 years. This includes: Numerous South Africa tours, as well as tours to Australian, USA and Europe. Boo! was a phenomena and won various awards, including a SAMA (South African Music Awards) for “Best Pop” album in 2003. Boo! released 6x albums with Sheer Music and BMG Music and had 6x top 10 hit singles on national top40 radio in South Africa including a nr.1 for the track “Stagefright”. The band reformed in 2010 -2015 without Leon and released one more album.

In 1994 Leon coordinated and released his first compilation of South African acts called Soda Sex Fountain. And again in 1995 he released the follow up called Soda Sex Fountain Vol2. This gave Leon the opportunity to compile South African music compilations on a bi-monthly basis for the magazine Get the Funk Out in 1997-1998. These compilations were called Funk Vol 1-7. After 7 issues, the magazine unfortunately folded.

Leon Retief held various publishing rights of profile songwriters with his company Muce Music. From 2006 - 2014 Leon sat on the board of the International Music Managers Forum (IMMF), representing the South African chapter for 8 years.

Apart from music, Leon has been working in the film industry since the early 1990's. The various feature films he worked on, had big names like Val Kilmer, Michael Douglas, Robert Downey Jr, Billy Zane, etc. In 2010, Leon wins a SAFTA (South African Film and Television Awards -Golden Horn) as Best Editor in a television series.