Moana A
What is your hometown?
Saint Martin, Caribbean.
What is your current location?
North Hollywood, California.
Who are your favorite musical artists?
Michael Jackson, Paramore.
What is your go to karaoke song?
How Far I'll Go (from the Moana Disney movie)
What is an interesting fun fact about you?
I grew up on a sailboat.
Singer, songwriter Moana (that is her real name, sorry Disney) grew up on a sailboat in Saint Martin. She graduated from Berklee College of Music summa cum laude in 2011. Her first solo, original album “dotted” was crowdfunded via IndieGogo in 2013, and followed by an endorsement deal with Daisy Rock Guitars. Based in LA, she regularly makes time to tour the world: Abu Dhabi, Indonesia, India, the Mediterranean region, the Caribbean, and all over the USA. She’s a singer for the YouTube hit kids’ show Badanamu, and a featured vocalist for Hunter & the Dirty Jacks. When she is not doing recording studio-session or songwriting work, she is a music teacher. She has taught Voice, Piano, Songwriting, Music Theory, and Artist Development at California College of Music, Berklee City Music Program, French Conservatory of Music (Beverly Hills), SAM (India), and more. 2020 is the year she is coming back as her own artist. MoAnanda is her duo project with multi-instrumentalist/producer/audio engineer Ananda Dhar-James.