(This is the English translation of the original Afrikaans Wiki below)

Anton Goosen has come a long way since travelling by train as a student from Heidelberg, where he studied, to East London to deliver a 15-minute set at a local variety concert. The young Anton Goosen mainly played English covers and it is unknown whether anyone in the audience realised what impact Anton would have on the South African music industry in general and the Afrikaans music industry in particular. There were certainly skeptics. In standard 9 (11th grade), a school psychologist told him that there was no future for him in music.
After school, with no immediate musical career in sight, he qualified as a teacher and taught at St Stithians, a private school in Johannesburg, while playing in pubs at night. Few people know that he qualified as a Southern Transvaal football referee during that period.

While at St. Stithians he wrote a musical, “Jantjie”, which the students performed. Anton left teaching in 1976 and started working as a part-time reviewer at the newly founded Afrikaans-language newspaper, Beeld. He also taught guitar and pottery classes. His first interview as Beeld's music critic was with the relatively unknown Sonja Heroldt, whose “Ek Verlang Na Jou” had just started to gain popularity. During the interview, Anton mentioned to Sonja that he also wrote songs. She visited him at his house and, after browsing his song collection, chose to sing “Jantjie”. It became one of her biggest hits.
In June 2009, Anton was honoured, together with Coenie de Villiers and David Kramer, with a centenary medal from the Suid -Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns (South African Academy for Science and Arts) for contributions to Afrikaans music.

In 2010, Anton received an ATKV (Afrikaanse Taal- en Kultuurvereniging – Afrikaans Language and Culture Association) award for his contribution as a songwriter.

In 2011, Anton received a gold Voortrekker Medal of Honour for outstanding youth service.

In 2012, Anton produced and presented a highly successful music series, Liedjieboer-rumoer, for the Afrikaans-language radio station RSG.
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Anton Goosen het 'n lang pad gestap vandat hy as student per trein gereis het van Heidelberg af, waar hy studeer het, na Oos-Londen om 'n 15-minute set te doen by 'n plaaslike verskeidenheidskonsert. Die jong Anton Goosen het hoofsaaklik Engelse covers gespeel en dit is nie bekend of enigeen in die gehoor besef het watter impak Anton op die Suid-Afrikaanse musiekbedryf in die algemeen en meer spesifiek die Afrikaanse musiekbedryf gaan hê nie.Daar was sekerlik skeptici. Reeds in standerd 9 het 'n skoolsielkundige vir hom gesê dat daar geen toekoms vir hom in musiek is nie.

Ná skool, met geen onmiddellike musikale loopbaan in die vooruitsig nie, het hy homself as onderwyser bekwaam en onderwys by St. Stithians gegee terwyl hy saans in kroeë gespeel het. Min mense weet dit, maar in hierdie tyd bekwaam hy hom ook as Suid-Transvaalse sokkerskeidregter.

Tydens sy termyn by St. Stithians skryf hy 'n musiekblyspel, Jantjie, wat deur die leerlinge opgevoer word. Anton verlaat die onderwys in 1976 en begin as deeltydse resensent by die nuutgestigde Beeld werk. Hy gee in die tyd ook kitaarklasse en pottebakkeryklasse. Sy eerste onderhoud as Beeld se musiekresensent was met die relatief onbekende Sonja Heroldt, wie se Ek verlang na jou toe pas begin het om gewildheid te verwerf. Tydens die onderhoud noem Anton aan Sonja dat hy ook liedjies skryf en nadat sy hom by sy huis besoek en deur sy liedjieversameling geblaai het, kies sy Jantjie om te sing en word dit een van haar grootste treffers.

In Junie 2009 word Anton saam met Coenie de Villiers en David Kramer vereer met 'n eeufeesmedalje deur die Akademie vir Kuns en Wetenskap vir hul onderskeie bydraes tot Afrikaanse musiek.

In 2010 ontvang Anton ‘n ATKV toekenning vir sy bydrae as liedjieskrywer.

In 2011 ontvang Anton ‘n goue Voortrekker-erepenning vir uitstaande jeugdiens.

In 2012 vervaardig en bied Anton 'n baie suksesvolle musiekreeks, Liedjieboer-rumoer, vir RSG aan. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.