Kyla-rose Smith is an acclaimed performer, violinist, and multimedia artist. She is best known  her work as violinist and backing singer with Freshlyground, South Africa's premier Afropop band. She has toured extensively inside and beyond South  Africa  with Freshlyground, who have garnered many awards including seven South African Music Awards (SAMA) awards, an MTV Europe Award, and four METRO awards. Kyla was also a recipient of the Glamour Woman of the Year Award.As a member of South Africa's top touring band, Kyla developed a keen interest in the art of performance and how musicians interact with their audience through the medium of  sound and music, while bridging cultural divides. Since leaving Freshlyground, she has established herself as an emerging multi-media artist. Her current projects engage with aural and visual dimensions of contemporary society.Kyla is the co-artistic director and artist facilitator of Hear Be Dragons, a  sound mapping project and artistic exchange program. Hear Be Dragons is a community based creativity initiative to get young people thinking about sound and the city and the way these influence our quality of life, perceptions of history and memory, and notions of identity.