Story

In a tiny town nestled under a mountain somewhere in South Africa, little Mana sang.

One day, while being a young fairy frolicking in the garden, she was interrupted by a mysterious choir of foreign warm metallic sounds. She begged to go down the streets in search of it's source, and came upon a group of people standing behind some round alien objects. After shyly asking the tall people what they were, she found they were called steelpans. From then on, all she wanted was to unravel the mystery of them and play too.

So, she joined the Steelband Project. This started a love and curiosity of all sorts of instruments, such as piano, drum kit, bass guitar, acoustic guitar and an assortment of percussion instruments (she is now an accomplished triangle player). Performing jazz and reggae with the band since she was 9 years old (top left in the photograph below) gave her the humble foundations of her songwriting, performing and ability to jam. In her teens, she performed songs that moved her in bars and restaurants and started to write herself. Through her varied music taste and background, she developed her own musical language.

As she grew, she nurtured a love for jazz, soul and Brazilian music and found that her truest instrument in the end was known from origin - her voice. Wanting to keep her musicianship untouched by academia, she went on to study Theatre and Performance. Here she learned much about healing, creating experiences, collaboration and composition.

Now, with all her love and knowledge gathered, she is guided by her intuition to share her voice and music with the world, reminding us that magic is real.