Birdie, formerly known as Tribute “Birdie” Mboweni is a Singer/Songwriter and a PhD Candidate in Anthropology at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, with her research focus being the contemporary human-environment interactions in protected areas in post-apartheid South Africa.

She has also joined a new breed of soul musicians that are putting their own modern take on the classic sound, and doing it justice. Her voice evokes raw, organic emotion that penetrates deep into your heart and makes you feel some type of way, however you want to define the feeling. She is definitely the latest edition to what already is a highly competitve music scene but has fast claimed her space. This petite singer has worked diligently to carve a path that ensures that she too has a place in the music industry.

Birdie has long carved her niche as a performing artist having serenaded audiences in the Middle East (Qatar and Dubai) where she took up artist residence playing with a jazz band featuring some of South Africa’s great musicians.