Mahoganee | Ember | April 2026

Mahoganee, also known as  “Da Sea Island Songbird”, born and raised in South Carolina has a unique style of soulful storytelling, blending elements of Jazz, Funk, Blues, Hip-hop with West African and Caribbean influence and instrumentation, touching on elements of both contemporary and traditional American roots music, making her a quintessential modern FOLK singer alongside her husband, Mr. Bounce Back they are Gullah Geechee Sound Griots who have created what they call “Indigenous Soul Music” shaped by Gullah Geechee cultural memory and an onstage expression that transcends into “The Mahoganee Xperience”.

For Mahoganee the intersecting arts of music, writing, photography and mixed media has allowed for creativity as a lifestyle with an ancestral liberatory practice.  Through their non-profit Responsible ARTistry, Inc, Mahoganee leads as the Executive Creative Director and is proud of their advocacy work with local and international youth making impact on the world by using Art to Entertain, Elevate, Enlighten and Explore the possibilities of utilizing the power of Creativity and Imagination to advance the Gullah/Geechee Culture and Heritage specifically by highlighting the importance of environmental responsibilities of land and water stewardship.

With a career spanning over 35 years in the music arts industry, now a Certified Teaching Artists through the South Carolina Arts Commission in the field of music, member of the Recording Academy (Grammys) as well as having been a GrammyU mentor, Mahoganee is a Leo Twiggs Leadership Scholar, RWJF/NCHE CoHLI Cohort 3 Fellow, TEDx performer, and commissioned to write the Alma mater for TCL Technical College of the Lowcountry.

She's recorded and released 14 musical projects with Mr. Bounce Back and collaborated on projects for other Gullah Geechee artists.  Co-written and performed a song with Grammy nominated artist, Carolyn Malachi, great granddaughter of Jazz pianist John Malachi and professor in the Cathy Hughes School of Communications at Howard University.

Mahoganee has been featured in the music line-up with Grammy Winner Dom Flemmons “The American Songster” who is one of the most accomplished American Folk Artists… few have pumped as much lifeblood into tradition as he has.”-MOJO Magazine. Also featured alongside South Carolina natives and globally recognized blues musicians Adia Victoria and 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. Most recently and notably asked to contribute to the Grammy nominated album The Auditorium Vol. 1 by Common and Pete Rock in 2024 as a Gullah/Geechee Sound Healer performing in the official video for grammy nominated song "When the Sun Shines Again" which was nominated for Best Rap Performance.

Register by visiting the April 2026 Charleston Creative Mornings event page.