Kavisha Mazzella

Musician and Composer

"I was born in England. My Mother is Anglo Burmese, My Father is Italian.We came out to Australia on a ship My father was always reading in the papers in the sixties about islands in the pacific we could migrate to and at the time the Australian government was asking people to come ...the tickets were 10 pounds! . This was the big island we came to .... So we came out on a ship.... and settled... but inside I never feel settled...When I go to Europe I long for Australia that lives in my mind and when I am in Australia my thoughts are often wandering back to Europe... I am torn by nostalgia for a life I never lived!I guess my mind re-lives the journey that my body made when I was very little. My songs are expressions of this restlessness and are woven with the strands of many influences that are part of my ancestral history. Burmese Irish Scottish Italian....And with all this , I feel I am making new Australian music that takes in all these flavours together with the light ,the rain, the desert and soil of this amazing country that is my home......Real or imagined!

love Kavisha"

More from Kavisha:

"My songs are about true stories. About celebrating life, love, journeys and displacement, physical and spiritual. They are about the search for home, earthly and mystical .They are about hope in spite of dark times. I mix country with gypsy, folk with blues, social commentary and comedy. It's a mix of Mediterranean soul with Country roots.

We were migrants from Britain to Australiain the sixties.With my Anglo Burmese Mum and Italian Dad we were constantly asked "What nationality we were? Our family grew up surrounded by music. We'd have "sing songs " around a piano or banjo with grandma or guitar with Mum.

I grew up in a house where my Irish /Burmese grandma played Woody Guthrie songs on the banjo and where my Italian Uncle was singing Neapolitan Opera in the kitchen of the family restaurant...so that explains the weird mix of influences in my songs I guess! And that's why I like to get the audience singing along too...
My songs are like European and Asian soil growing in Australian light, rain and wind and my music is the flower that grows from this.."

Contact
www.kavisha.com

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