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Also referred to as “Da Sea Island Songbird” her unique style of storytelling blends elements of Jazz, Funk, Blues, Hip-hop with African and Caribbean influence, touching on all elements of both contemporary and traditional American roots music, making her a quintessential modern FOLK singer. This music that ignites the senses and lyrics born out of her trans-Atlantic heritage that spark the soul is created by Mahoganee and her husband, music producer André Amigér and they call it Indigenous Soul Music.

With over 30 years of experience in her field and national credits to her name, Mahoganee’s artistic persona is constantly evolving. Her sultry and earthy vocals, commanding acapella stage presence, and a range spanning more than four octaves has earned her a loyal following by an ever-growing fan base and thus given the name “Sea Island Songbird”. She has performed before dignitaries and 21st century icons and for audiences of 20,000+ at festivals and other corporate, private, civic and community events – including Historical Penn Center's Heritage Festival, the Annual Black Family Reunion for the National Council of Negro Women in Washington, DC, and the Black Heritage Festival in Savannah, GA.

Mahoganee has shared the stage with artists such as Tony Terry, SOS Band, and Daniel Winans, and has been a featured performer with South Carolina’s ambassadors of Tourism Dr. Marlena Smalls & The Hallelujah Singers. Mahoganee was an Artist-in-Residence in Trinidad and Tobago in 2009 and in 2019 Cuba and Belize. Mahoganee has been featured in the music line-up with Grammy Winner Dom Flemmons “The American Songster” “Dom Flemons is one of the most accomplished American Folk Artists… few have pumped as much lifeblood into tradition as he has.”-MOJO Magazine. Mahoganee has also been featured alongside South Carolina native and globally recognized blues musician Adia Victoria and South Carolina-native Nicole Neely, composer, arranger and conductor collaborating with artists such as Beyoncé, Ms. Lauryn Hill, Mariah Carey, Alicia Keys, John Legend, Toni Braxton, Lizzo and H.E.R.

Mahoganee has been a member of the recording academy (Grammys) for several years and a GrammyU mentor. A volunteer for District Advocate, the biggest grassroots advocacy program which is a voice for the music makers helping to shape the discussion on policies impacting our music community. This advocacy successfully led to the House passing the CASE Act just weeks after District Advocate in 2019, to successfully urging Congress to provide billions in COVID relief for music makers and businesses in 2020. Mahoganee has most recently self-released her fourth studio album entitled “Textures of a Southern Soul” (a Gullah Geechee Soul) now available on all streaming platforms.

Little known fact, Mahoganee loves documentary style photography about her culture. Her work has been published in the environmental magazine “Earth Island Journal” (summer of 2022 issue) about the Gullah Culture. Southern Cultures Vol 28, No. 3: Inheritance 2022 Title: Frankenstein’s Monster (Constructing a Legal Regime to Regulate Race and Place) ; The Inheritance Issue: Southern Cultures is an award-winning, peer-reviewed quarterly of the history, arts, and cultures of the US South, published by UNC Press for the Center for the Study of the American South, where it is housed.

My Visual Art & Literary Work featured in the Avery Research Center for African American History & Culture 11/22 - 02/23

ARTIST EDUCATOR STATEMENT

“As a performing musician and recording artist for over 30 years it is my purpose to inspire, educate and uplift our youth through music. To teach young people the greater possibilities of who they can become when they embrace their natural gifts through empowering and educational mentorship via the arts. Being who you are comfortably in your skin gives others permission to do the same which in my opinion is a direct counteract to bullying. Arming students with the power to love themselves and understand that creativity is a great source of their power is a fundamental key in what I reflect to my students."

As a dedicated arts advocate and certified teaching-artist Mahoganee is a sought after Artist-in-Residence and Co-Founder of Responsible ARTistry, Inc. A non-profit that centers music as art therapy and education on artist development by hosting workshops, clinics and camps on music production, songwriting, song structure, stage presence, confidence building, and vocal production. Social Media pages are used with discernment by the artist. Mahoganee’s most recent residency was on the sacred grounds of The Brainerd Institute and Workshops In Open Fields, curated by the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor’s executive director, Victoria Smalls’ a premier program created by Poet and Pulitzer Prize Nominee Dr. Vivian Ayers Allen to foster and promote preschool literacy. The program was lauded and fully supported by the National Endowment of the Arts Chairman Nancy Hanks as the premier paradigm for how to approach education. Phylicia Rashad, the actress and director is the daughter of Dr. Vivian Ayers Allen was on site as a Culture Keeper at Brainerd Institute on behalf of Dr. Ayers. To hear the In Open Fields Project Community music created by Mahoganee and her husband André please watch video below.