Donderweer (artist)

Goitom van der Heijden (born January 16, 1968), better known as Donderweer, is an South African-born American artist.

History
Donderweer was born in Bloemfontein, South Africa to a Dutch father and a Xhosa mother. In 1986 during Apartheid, his mother was fined and jailed due to his parents' interracial relationship, so he and his father moved to Chicago, Illinois in the United States as asylum seekers as a result. He and his father are naturalized citizens of the United States.