Ato Song

Lerato ‘Ato Song’ Moloto-Moraka (previously Moiloa) is an urban-jazz musician and a human rights activist, particularly passionate about the rights of women and members of the LGBTIQI+ community. She is also a small-scale commercial farmer and a Multimedia Specialist - specializing in videography,video-editing & digital content curation. 

Ato is currently running a Digital Multimedia company: 

Ato Song Productions PTY Ltd  - (CK no: 2013/223096/07)

Some of her career highlights include:

2023 - Produced a live music event with urban-jazz duoLoveGlori, for which she is a founding member and singer-songwriter.

Performance link:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeMWy-VuYBU&t=2774s

2021 - Completing Debut Solo Album titled Fabric - on mainstream platforms February 2021

2020 - BlkGrlzRize Documentary Digital Screening  - a sequel to Episode 1: I Wrote A Letter - a doccie-film dedicated to the life of Mama Nomzamo Winnie Mandela. This was also where the album’s first single ‘Rize’ was born - an anthem dedicated to young African women.

2019- Performing at the JHB Pride Official Afterparty 

2018 - Headlining the Word & Sound Festival

2018 - Audio-Visual Content Producer forNuBlaq Africapodcast.

2018 - Production Manager and Presenter atUrban Muthi, a satirical social commentary lifestyle show. As a multimedia specialist with a background in journalism, this social commentary platform gave her more room for my creativity to be explored. One of the highlights of my journey on this team was producing content for the global festivalAfro Punk_2018hosted at Constitutional Hill, JHB.

2017 -Music scoring for the South African film,Catching Feelings(directed by Kagiso Lediga) 

2016 - Music scoring for the South African film,Tell Me Sweet Something(directed by Akin Omotoso)

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Ato considers herself a global citizen whose purpose is to create and disseminate beautiful and meaningful content - explicitly aimed at uplifting the African continent.