PNG songstress Heru Pinkasova is back with volume 2 of sublime, surprising, funked up opera beatbox melodious mashups and helped along by Tempo, the current Qld Beatboxing Champ, who’s a young sista with a sweet singing voice and heavy set bass drops that promise to rattle Aunty’s operatic arias.

We’ll pay our respects to great ladies like Aunty Aretha, Billie, Dame Kiri, Jessye and other awesome Aunties.

“The melding of the two genres never clash and there’s a harmonious beauty with the meeting of classical music and urban sounds…. Heru’s passion for the classical is evidently shown, but her love for various music genres is also on full display.” Jaydem Martin from Nothing ever happens in Brisbane

The title is a nod towards Dvorák’s, “Songs My Mother Taught Me” (1880), which reminisces about music passed from one generation to the next.

Port Moresby born soprano, Heru Pinkasova was raised in Cairns, then studied in Brisbane and the Czech Rep. In recent years she has workshopped a new opera called Three Marys with Sydney composer Andrée Greenwell & was a singer for The Beginning of Nature, with Australian Dance Theatre, joining them for their European & Australian tours. For Adelaide Fringe Festival & Judith Wright Centre Heru performed with Hot Brown Honey Burlesque Cabaret. In 2014 Heru played Queenie in Show Boat for The Production Company, Melbourne. She has worked with Opera Queensland for many years in mainstage productions, school residencies and is a Young Artist Program alumni.