About

Angel is a singer-songwriter, musician, and therapeutic group sound and voice arts facilitator.

With over 25 years of musical experience, and a distinction-level diploma in Group Sound and Voice Arts Therapy from the British Academy of Sound Therapy, Angel brings together musical depth, warmth, and therapeutic presence to create meaningful experiences centred around shared music, sound and voice.

Angel offers a range of group sound and voice therapy experiences in Blackheath, London SE3, including vocal circles, drumming circles, sound experiences and community music events under the name of ‘Melody Medicine’. These sessions are creatively rich, emotionally safe, and carefully held.

Alongside her therapeutic music facilitation, Angel writes and performs original music rooted in truth, courage and connection.

Performance highlights

Angel has performed in and around London at various venues and festivals including; How The Light Gets In festival, The Troubadour Earls Court, BBC Anything Goes, Burning Woman festival, Chilled In A Field Festival, The Elysian Project, The Icarus Club, Small World Festival, The Original Songwriters Club, The Exchange, Camden Acoustic, MIND fundraiser for mental health, Sunday Live Sessions and more.

From tragedy to triumph

Angel grew up in an all-female household, daughter of a fierce and radical mother who rejected societal expectations of a woman’s role, and modeled independence and freedom. Angel spent many hours backstage as a child and often sang on stage with her mum, to large supportive audiences. Yet privately, her mother struggled with her mental health and after a long and difficult battle with depression, when Angel was 21 years old, she took her own life. This was a shocking pivotal moment for Angel. One that would render her unable to sing for around a decade, silenced by her grief and unable to allow herself to sink into the river of lost souls, for fear she may drown.

Instead, she poured vast amounts of love into building a creative music community that grew into thousands of people in central London called Planet Angel. Many relationships, marriages, friendships and babies were formed within the Planet Angel community, and the organisation had a healing impact on hundreds of lives.

No matter how successful it all became though, for Angel, there was a piece missing. She was strangled by anxiety, fear and self-doubt. Her soul was silenced. She was carrying issues of abandonment, rejection, lack of self-worth, hurt and trauma. Disconnected from her inner and outer landscape. Everything she did, she did for others. She did not tend to herself.  Like a rosebud, holding herself together tightly, knowing that once she opened up her voice, she would open her heart, and the feelings would pour out.

After almost a decade battling with her inner dark and rejecting her authentic truth, Angel started to feel the urge to sing again. It became strong, as though she needed to exorcise a part of her soul that needed to be free. The whisperings were growing louder and more frequent.

It was the love of her grounded, affectionate, compassionate husband and birth of their sons that offered Angel the safe place she needed to begin the vulnerable process of cracking open and learning to trust. Over the next few decades she worked through a deep healing process; allowing herself to feel everything. She healed her trauma, released old stories, patterns and unhealthy behaviours, rewrote the story, cut the cords, searched for, and brought back, the lost and fragmented parts of her soul.

Finally, she answered the call, gathered her courage, walked out from beneath the shadow of fear and pain, found her voice and began to sing!

Surname

Angel’s exotic surname originates from her husband’s family in Mauritius and is pronounced 'Ma-La-Bu' according to the family elders.