I believe I’ve always been singing. As a child and teenager, I had been on stage in school musicals, usually with a solo or leading role. But it wasn’t until I started traveling that people told me things like, “Hey, you’ve got a beautiful voice, do you do anything with it?” No, I didn’t. Not yet. But something definitely started to sparkle… Me happy at my first song performance in The Netherlands That little spark turned into a flame at the start of 2021, in a canoe on a sma

What a dream. I feel like I’m in a rollercoaster, and the cart has only just started moving. And I’m screaming — from excitement! What a dream… one that began five years ago, when I wrote my first songs. Not one at a time, but two at once. And that same week, another three followed. And what is happening now? Well, let me tell you... Well, let me tell you. This August I came back to the Netherlands again. As usual, the plan was: “make some money, and then hit the road again

My additional name, Anansi, often raises an eyebrow — it’s not exactly a familiar word in our Western world. Maybe that’s part of why I love it! The meaning behind it, and the way it found me, make it even more special. Pre-Anansi time at Afrika Burn, 2019 It was March 2019. I’m usually pretty bad with dates, but because it was my very first Afrika Burn — a wild and beautiful Burning Man–inspired event in the South African desert — this one stuck. I had just arrived in this s

Alone – again. And I love it. But to love and accept this fact took me many years. Coming from a culture (Western / Dutch) where the amount of friends equals your status or level of happiness, where “I take some time for myself” was not a thing, or people finding you weird when you’re by yourself a lot, it took me a long-long time to discover how much I enjoy (and need) being by myself, and then another while feeling socially comfortable with this. The start of this whole pro

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