Shani

Week after week for years, I sat on the piano bench half scared that I'd mess up and my piano teacher would correct me by applying a rather uncomfortable amount of pressure to my finger on the correct key! I loved classical piano though...Mozart, Tchaikovsky, J.S. Bach....but eventually I fell in love with singing...priceless is the emotion it brings."

This singer-songwriter has written for Film and TV with credits in Barbershop 2, The Wool Cap and TNT. Shani has appeared on The Tyra Banks Show, The Tonight Show, The Today Show, Ellen, and MTV Life and Rhyme as a background singer for Mary J.Blige.

West Indian raised, her artistry is built on strong values with academia deemed as an important prerequisite by her mother, in order to pursue her music career. She earned two diplomas as a scholarship student at The Watkinson School, and was a student at Oxford University in England before graduating from Spelman College. Shani Bastiany is an artist of class, and encompasses an inimitable sound and character that promises a career of longevity.