The new decade means:
Hopefully just having a platform to communicate to others what you love and what is important to you and, hopefully, to move them in some way.
When I die. I do what I love, so retirement doesn’t apply.
Topiary and personalised number plates.
Memories, moments, a soundtrack to your life? It’s got to be about what moves you.
I love creating and performing, but it is very moving to me when someone tells me a particular song moved them or created a lasting memory.
We’re a chaotic and spontaneous 11-piece on stage, so many funny and humiliating moments, and doubtless more to come.
Well, they are not possessions, they are wonderful beings who I am lucky enough to have gracing my life: my beloved fur-friends Sammy and Cloudy. We belong to each other.
Hmm…A good glass of SA Chardonnay?
Sadly not, or possibly too rude to mention?
I have always loved performing, so maybe acting, art or possibly to working with animals.
Difficult to speak for myself without sounding vain or p
retentious, so I asked John (founding member of Mango, ex-husband, best friend) to do a list. I take no responsibility for this: Anxious, self-deprecating (is that one or two words?), funny, kind, lateral.A tough one: The first éVoid album, Hugh Masekela & The Union of South Africa, Lucky Dube’s Slave, Brenda Fassie’s Memeza(or others) and any of the early Miriam Makeba/Skylarks/Spokes Mashiyane collaborations.
Too many to call. Ella Fitzgerald and Karen Carpenter made we want to become a singer, Debbie Harry made me want to be in a pop group.
Sorry.
Nothing glamorous, probably something comfortable and 'schlumpfy'. If it had to be something more fashionable, probably one of my leopard-skin-pattern coats.
Career-wise, there are some very big Mango movie and stage projects that we hope to see realised soon. More personally, there are a few trips I have to make, all of them on this continent: a road trip around SA, seeing the gorillas in Rwanda, the Okavango Swamps in full flood.
We are all flawed and fumbling but, hopefully, I am learning to accept the parts of me that I love and to see the best in others.
Hmm…Load-shedding? Bad drivers? Myself? Don’t we all.
I tend to feed very much off the audience: always a lot of nervous energy, not wanting to bore anyone and, in the midst of it, loving the thrill of performing and interacting with the band and the audience.
Yes: Assorted initiatives, but more primarily animal welfare and conservation initiatives.
To be happy, kind and loved, and to feel secure enough to explore all my dreams.
