My Vision

Desmond Stanley Mac Kay, the youngest son of 6 children born from the late Charles George “Lucky” Mac Kay and Sophia Ravell, was born on the 1st January 1967, in Cape Town, South Africa. He grew up under “the apartheid era” and was labelled as a previous disadvantaged and disenfranchised individual. Desmond grew up in a small town called Bellville South in Cape Town where he completed most of his studies. Desmond teaches business English in the capital of the European Union called, Strasbourg in France for the past 2 years.

Desmond Mac Kay is a self taught musician who was inspired to write and play music because of musicians, producers and songwriters like Quincy Jones, Kenneth Babyface Edmonds, Take 6, The Winans, George Benson, Lee Ritenour, Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, Randy Crawford and also musicians from his home town like Jonathan Butler residing in the US now, the late Taliep Petersen, Ezra Delport, Seredeal (SHAGGY) Scheepers, Judith Sepuma, Hugh Masikela, Camilo Lombard, The Schilder family and many others. Desmond was the guitarist and musical director of the young boy that was well known all over South Africa for the song called, “I Love You Daddy.” His name is Ricardo. Desmond played and shared stages with ex members of the band called the “Rockets” who was South Africa’s best and most successful pop band.

Vision

“My vision is to help and empower committed musicians and artists from my home country South Africa, that has the ability to produce, write, sing and play songs of their own, but where limitations such as finance is the “Cul de Sac” in their career. Many artists including myself were victims of these barriers and now my aim is to establish an international network that will enable them to share their music with the rest of the world. Another vision is to see more South Africans participating in international award ceremonies such as the Grammy awards etc. What the world has seen up to now of some of South African musicians such as Hugh Masikela, Jonathan Butler, the late Miriam Makeba, Ladysmith Black Mambazu, just to mention a few, is a drop in the ocean of the millions of talents that is dying a slow death due to the above mentioned barriers.”
I am constantly looking at opportunities to engage in partnerships, joint ventures or any kind of international relationship to bring this vision to fruition.

Motivation

“There is a 100% failure in each opportunity NOT taken!!!”

“Live YOUR Dream… if YOU believe it, You CAN achieve it!!!”