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bioI love the freedom that music grants me. One of my gifts in this life is my relationship with music...it has enabled me to heal myself at first and now others too, through my free-flowing release of it. It's hard to describe my music as I switch from accapella to alternate with a classical twist. Some people say that i remind them of Tori Amos but i get a deeper thrill when i'm called "indescribable".
It brings me an insane amount of fullfilment when someone tells me that their soul was touched by my performance/music. I see the sparkle in their eye, their smile as they purchase my album and I write them a personal message...it's what keeps me performing!
was first exposed to the magic of music on a personal, involved level, when I was three years old and introduced to the piano. It was my escape, into a place of unlimited sounds and absolute FUN! The greatest discovery of my young life. My experience of music was fuelled by my father who would on most nights play guitar and sing my sister and I to sleep. Unfortunatley we were seperated from my father when we were very young....this is what divorce does....so nights of singing along to his guitar playing were stretched months apart, limited to holidays. Thank the Lord I had my piano with me. A gift from my Oupa. It was a source of comfort and companionship like no other. By the age of twelve I discovered the language of the guitar and what we could do for each other. My parents suprised me with a guitar on my thirteenth birthday and I started composing, giving life to it - and receiving joy in return - immediately. I received my second guitar; a nylon string Fender; from my mother on my 21 st birthday. I am now 25 and have about 40 compositions on my guitar and piano, often composing on whichever instrument is nearest to me in that moment, and perhaps then transposing it on to the other. My first experience as a paid musician was performing guitar and voice with my father who plays guitar, harmonica, sax and sings amazingly. I was sixteen or so and for a year we had weekly slots at two local restaurant/pubs. This ended when I went overseas to live with my mother for a year. Upon returning to South Africa, I took up private piano lessons but didn't make the time for performing, opting instead to focus on composing for myself and my own healing, as I always have. Besides my three instruments (voice, guitar and piano), I am also a tribal drummer. Bo and I have performed at fashion shows, casinos, hotels and music festivals. In May 2005 I sang and drummed at Splashy Fen's Rainbow Village and the response was amazing. This, and my first performance at Durban's Folk Club were what fuelled my appetite for giving to the world what I have kept for myself. My music. I find that because my music is mainly for me, that it tends to reflect what I am going through in my life. Issues I've noticed are : Poverty and pollution ; tormented, confused and questioning heartbreak ; the healing that comes after the heartbreak ; my tragic love for our land, South Africa ; expressing hurt caused by certain people in my life...directly to family members and indirectly to friends...why this way I don't know...it is not a patented pattern, but merely co-incidence and therefore has no particular intention on my part, other than releasing through voicing! ; relationships and all that come with them - intense happiness, mad lessons that test you, revenge, laughter, ...to be continued as I continue to learn, change and be exposed to new concepts, realities, experiences etc. everyday. In 2004 I received a full scholarship to study Opera at Sahmyook University, Seoul, South Korea... not exactly my favorite singing style, but an awesome opportunity to live, study, learn and work overseas (I taught English part-time at a language academy and gave private instruction from home to save up for my magnificent 88-key YAMAHA electric piano). While there I coordinated, choreographed and performed in a gig for the South African Embassy, along with two American guitarists and my partner, Bo Tasker. Whilst in South Korea, I auditioned for, and won, a scholarship to study music at Berklee College of Music in Boston, U.S.A. Upon returning home to sunny South Africa, I decided to turn it down, opting instead to perform locally, enjoying the pleasure of being less than ten minutes away from my family and Bo and living in one of the most scenic and natural environments I know. After two years of extensive performing and fulfilling every part of me which needed to be discovered and nourished, I realised that I don't ever want to have any 'what if's', and so now, here I am at Berklee, Boston, in the U.S.OF.A... American Life. Anybody else feel weird inside at the sound of that? I am; admittedly though; rather excited about it...It is extreme, colorful, consuming and exhausting. Full to the brim with fun and fire-works...draining, yet life-giving at the same time. I am learning more than I could ever have imagined and creating non-stop...the music is pouring out of me and I have only God to thank for this as I am merely a channel...one of his creative outlets here within the dimension of Planet Earth! Along my journey I have realised that my gift in life is my relationship with music and after being coaxed in to performing it has been a rollercoaster ride of opportunities, performances, collaborations, blessings, abundance and self-discovery. Who knows what the future holds...sometimes I feel it's time to change my course, but I've barely begun! So I'll keep riding this musical wave until I reach the shore and will re-evaluate the surf and it's waves before plunging back in. Best of luck to you and your own journey. Shomonmembers*SHOMON and her Beloved 88-key Yamaha Electric Piano* |
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