mowgli supports RAWRA with feeling on keys & vocals.
Mowgli is a vibrant, warm soul who engages audiences and is know for his playfulness on stage. His music is genre-spanning with soul/funk akin to Charles Bradley and PJ Morton, sad-girl music echoing members of Boy Genius & Adrienne Lenker, and playful musings like that of Noah & The Whale. Mowgli is dynamic, performing from intimate bedroom concerts for friends to captivating thousands in an arena.
When not performing, Mowgli runs a full-time private music therapy practice for various client communities. Over the past decade, his work has spanned running a brain choir for folks who have had Strokes, Traumatic Brain Injuries, or Parkinson’s, social groups for neurodivergent folks like those with ASD, ADHD, & Down Syndrome, providing therapeutic music production for a youth shelter/group home, creating programming & co-treating in an IEP based school, supervising and serving as clinical manager for a team of 8 music therapists, and seeing hundreds of individual clients from the NICU to end of life.
Mowgli’s clinical experiences as a music therapist since 2015 allows them to bring a therapeutic presence to performances that is unlike any other front-person. Sometimes they use music therapy experiences to help ground audiences and create a more authentic, vulnerable space. They are an avid learner and advocate against oppression. They share intersections as a BIPOC, queer, disabled human and continually refines their own anti-oppressive practices.
(previously known as Brandon Shah)