Our actress, Ghia Leigh (Ghia Koch-Human), is a multi-disciplinary artist from Cape Town South Africa, whose creative career has spanned from visual art to performance. She has graced the stage in a variety of live performances from music stages to theatre, as well as work on screen as an actor and off screen as a voice artist. Aside from her formal studies in visual arts and acting training she has studied basic music production using Ableton continuously exploring sound and experimenting with various live improvised aspects. Ghia launched her inaugural solo EP ‘State of Being’ in 2018 and along with the singles that followed, she has performed at a variety of local venues sharing the stage with the likes of Floors Live, Emerger, Crawling King Snake and international violinist Hezron Chetty. 

Since she has been on a performance hiatus focussing on developing a new body of creative work moving her sound into a space that feels more aligned. While healing from a series of life changing events she became fascinated by the powerful effects of binaural/isochronic beats and solfeggio frequencies deciding to investigate this further incorporating her love of sound design. At the core of Ghia’s new journey in sound is the need to share this experience through her music. She’s produced her own sound journey with a soulful jazzy twist which she has just started performing live in intimate spaces. Ghia has a new found love exploring, incorporating elements of her sound journey's ambient sonics fused with R&B, Neo Soul and Jazz influences which is how her latest single ‘Awake’ came into existence. 

About the song ‘Awake’:

‘Awake’ is about slowing down and taking some time out for yourself to ‘sit with it’ and process, whether you need to heal or simply find your centre and come out the other with a sense of growth or feeling awakened. 

Fun Fact : Ghia also made the digital work for her new single, Awake, which is part of a bigger project and body of work.

Link to listen to Ghia's new single :

https://open.spotify.com/track/7A9H5rH2ppvf1OKDhCXce4?si=rqmuQCdxRMq0sBL7-iBloA&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A7f51yTzJcZ2p74YrkBlNzC