South Africa has given birth to its long awaited singing gemstone, born in the Eastern and well nurtured in the Western Cape. A Xhosa woman who bears an old soul that is engraved with all the rare elements that gave our nation its very first Golden Era of music. Her name is Anelisa ’Khonaye’ Blom. She was born in Mdantsane in the Eastern Cape and when she was just 4 years old, she moved to Cape Town with her brother where she received all her education. Looking back at her schooling years, she says everything she did involved music. "I sang my way out and into everything. I sang during tests, meetings, netball and soccer games. Throughout those years, my teachers at the Holy Cross Convent High School even stopped punishing me for my random and abrupt singing moments because they knew how much I loved to sing. My lecturers at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology where I'm currently finishing off my National Diploma in Human Resources Management, are fully aware of the fact that I will probably sing all the way through to my graduation" Khonaye's sensational voice possesses a vocal prowess that allows her to effortlessly transition from, an endearing husky tone that gets accompanied by her unexpected baritone, a sweet baritone that you get as she resolves a belted out note, all the way to a surreal, angelic and beautiful falsetto whenever her songs call for it. Her music has an invisible thread that perfectly stitches each melody with warmly sung harmonies. The stories embedded in her songs draw inspiration from all corners of Africa and she will continue to musically narrate those stories to the rest of the world. In Khonaye, the legacy of genuine, authentic, pure African music continues.