Real name: Hanneke Hanegraef

Effective period / Period of releases: 2024

Hanneke Hanegraef. Born in Wilrijk, near Antwerp in Belgium, in 1996, Hanneke moved to the Gers region as a child. She grew up on an old farm, surrounded by forests, fields, nature, old stones and hundred-year-old trees... At the age of 9, she began practicing circus arts, and at 15 she left 500 km from home, alone, to attend a circus high school in Châtellerault. She then went on to the Ecole Nationale des Arts du Cirque in Rosny-sous-Bois, and continued her studies at the Centre National des Arts du Cirque in Châlons-en-Champagne, where a few months later she was forced to stop her circus practice altogether due to injury. It took her some time to reorientate herself, and in the end it was her second passion that took over: music! She already played a little piano, bought a guitar and composed little things in her room, alone, with headphones, unable for a long time to share her music with the outside world. But as time went by, Hanneke threw herself 3000% into the development of a solo musical project: Heeka.

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