- The artist’s stage name ‘Moonchild’, stems from her spiritual background, the name is a direct translation of ‘iNyanga’, meaning moon.
- The Port Elizabeth born musician moved to Johannesburg with just twenty-four songs and has been in the industry for 12-years and has evolved with time, transitioning from poetry to Hip-hop, Jazz and now, her new found sound which she coined as ‘Future ghetto punk’ in 2007.
- The fashionable Sanelly who makes some of her clothes studied fashion design, and has admitted to once wanting to be a Psychologist.
- Sanelly was raised in the spotlight since her late mother – who passed away when Sanelly went to fashion school – put her on stage when she was just six months old.
- The musician is also a mother to three daughters who she sees occasionally as their based in Port elizabeth with their father’s grandmother. One of her daughters, Artemis, is a nine-year-old musician who is said to have finished recording her EP and will soon be shooting her video in June
- Moonchild is in a loving relationship with her boyfriend, Oarabile, who is a copywriter and a musician.
