Hey y’all, I’m Mahoganee.
An interdisciplinary artist in the field of music for over 30 years writing, recording and performing vocalist, literary field as a writer of poetry, published landscape photography and mixed media visual artist born and raised in Coastal South Carolina, doing my part to be a Sound Griot for my Gullah/Geechee Heritage and Culture.
Wha Dey Say: Also referred to as “Da Sea Island Songbird” with a unique style of storytelling, blending elements of Black classical music (jazz), funk, blues, Hip-hop with West African and Caribbean influence and instrumentation, 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 their heritage that spark the soul is created by Mahoganee and her husband, music producer André aka (Mr. BounceBack) and they call it “Indigenous Soul Music”. ;)
Most recently I contributed to the Grammy-nominated album “The Auditorium Vol. 1” by Common and Pete Rock as a featured Sound Healer on the intro of the Official Video for the [Grammy Nominated] song “When The Sun Shines Again” which also features Bilal and Pos (Plug 1) of De La Soul. Click here to read the details on my BLOG
With music as my primary discipline, I’m a State Certified Teaching Artist through the South Carolina Arts Commission in the Field of Music. I’ve been a musician professionally since 1991 and I'm grateful the learning and growing never stops. My work involves creativity and imagination as powerful healing tools of liberation to shape and craft the art. My Residencies have included schools in my own community of Beaufort County such as Robert Smalls Leadership Academy, Saluda Trail Middle School, York County, St. Paul Elementary School of Clarendon School District One, Killian Elementary School of Richland School District Two, and internationally in Trinidad, Cuba and Belize.
Most recently selected as a 2023 Riley Fellow in the Diversity Leaders Initiative at The Riley Institute at Furman and Leo Twiggs Arts Leadership Scholar through the South Carolina Arts Commission. Chosen by The Culture of Health Leaders Institute for Racial Healing into its Third Cohort of National Leaders for 2024.
My husband and I are the founders of Responsible ARTistry, Inc. an arts education non-profit founded in 2006. Our mission is to arm youth with the imagination to survive through mentorship art camps, workshops and classes driven by fostering leadership skills, self awareness, self healing ` and understanding the responsibility of being good stewards of our planet through music and the arts.
We are 4.0 Fellows, an organization that imagines a world where education leaders reflect the diversity of our nation, families and communities are co-owners in the process of vetting promising ideas that re-imagine the educational system. Our initiatives include Gullah Geechee land and water stewardship, building bridges to other coastal community countries internationally, inspiring change and finding creative ways to be an advocate.
I’m the CEO of “The Mahoganee Xperience” where I bridge all of my artistry (music, visual, literary, photography) together to curate concerts, artist talks and other expressive events.
On my site you'll find my BIO, my Music Catalogue, my Visual Art, my Literary Works, my Educational Work and Arts x Advocacy Journey via my Blog.
-Mahoganee
“The Mahoganee Xperience is an immersive Coastal Southern gath·er·ing of Gullah Geechee Indigenous Ancestral Expressive Arts: Afro-futurism storytelling through fashion, stage design, soulful folk songs, photography, mixed media and poetry.”
NEW MUSIC OF THE CAROLINA COAST & GULLAH GEECHEE CORRIDOR
Mahoganee writes and performs a sonic journey of timeless music composed by her husband André (Mr. BounceBack) Amigér inspired by the Gullah Geechee culture of the southeastern Sea Islands and Corridor blending elements of Jazz, Funk, Blues, Hip-hop with West African and Caribbean influence and instrumentation. Songs of Da Wada, Black Love, Black Land Justice, Afrofuturism, Ancestral Mathematics, Time Travel, a Self Love Mantra, Carolina Jazz, Blues with a lil but of funk, rice and indigo can all be found on her latest release “Textures of a Southern Soul” (a Gullah Geechee Soul).
