Born in Cape Town, this 21-year-old singer-songwriter never thought he’d become a full-time musician, but his father taught him how to play the guitar and started him off playing covers, and now Matthew Mole is well on the way to being just that. As we learn from Matthew, it all comes from a genuine love of songwriting, rather than any serious career choice: “I started writing my own songs at the end of high school — I had no idea what I was doing, I was just writing the worst songs in the world! I just loved the idea, so I wrote as much as I could.”

Born in Cape Town, this singer-songwriter never thought he’d become a full-time musician, but his father taught him how to play the guitar and started him off playing covers, and now Matthew Mole is well on the way to being just that. As we learn from Matthew, it all comes from a genuine love of songwriting, rather than any serious career choice: “I started writing my own songs at the end of high school — I had no idea what I was doing, I was just writing the worst songs in the world! I just loved the idea, so I wrote as much as I could.”