Axel Starviking

28/05/2026

A little bit about me:

After a lifetime of performance (my first Ceccetti ballet, and group singing performance aged 3, in 1983) I began performing professionally at a young age in South Africa, touring nationally and internationally for over a decade with the KwaZulu-Natal Youth Choir as a soloist and assistant conductor. I then trained as a professional Aria Antiche classical vocalist in the Bel Canto tradition

My performance career has included road shows, traditional theatre, concert performance, choral work, solo performance and multidisciplinary arts projects across South Africa, Europe and Australia.

My heritage musical work now combines electronic pop rock opera, folk influences, classical voice and Afro-inspired rhythmic elements, reflecting both my South African roots, and my later life in Australia.

As a multidisciplinary artist, I have worked across more than forty creative industries over my lifetime, including traditional painting, body and face painting, special effects art, wearable art and costume design, theatre direction, music education, community arts programming and tattoo art.

My wearable art practice includes sculptural Viking-inspired Valkyrie crowns and headpieces made from found objects, jewelry, natural materials and textiles, which form an important visual element of my theatrical performances.

I am also an Author, Clinical Hypnotherapist and Psychotherapist, and I have written books on self-hypnosis, cognitive restructuring and personal transformation. My work often explores themes of identity, transformation, mythology, survival, memory and belonging, and these themes appear across my music, theatre, visual art and writing.

As a Trans man, I perform duets with my former female voice, pre-recorded alongside a choir of my transitioning selves over the last decade. It's a duet across time and space... My work is ultimately about human transformation, storytelling and connection - creating art that allows people to see themselves, their stories and their possibilities reflected back to them through music, theatre and visual art.

I look forward to seeing you at one of my shows one day 😊❤️✨

28/05/2026

This my rehearsal of my song Deus Luna, this song is about finding the power within yourself, your own Deus Luna (Holy Moon) - Remembering that whether we rely on a higher power, through prayer or action, or whether we use therapeutics, community support or our own inner strengths... It is ultimately our choice: how we respond to the world around us.

This Saturday I will be bringing Deus Luna to life at an intimate venue on the Central Coast, Narara Ecovillage - the acoustics in this venue are absolutely perfect. Very much like a Cathedral - and so well suited to the kind of music I am presenting ✨🎶

I've heard from a little bird... That there will be drinks and snacks available at the venue as well!

Back to the song... Never forget your own inner strengths 😇✨

28/05/2026

My rehearsal of my original song "Fly Towards the Sun" - for my show Intergalactica on Saturday (in my Events Section)

It describes two souls surrendering completely to love, choosing to journey together even if that journey leads toward destruction, transformation or the unknown. The imagery of 'flying toward the sun' evokes passion, devotion and inevitability... Just two people (as one) embracing both the beauty and fragility of love while accepting that endings and beginnings are intertwined. They are the end and beginning of each other ✨ intergalactica

27/05/2026

Thank you Coast Community News for your article! Saturday is going to be an incredible night!

A singer harmonising with their female and male voice to create a perfect harmony might sound like science fiction - but for Central Coast performer Axel

27/05/2026

My rehearsal of my original song "Fly Towards the Sun" - for my show Intergalactica on Saturday (in my Events Section)

It describes two souls surrendering completely to love, choosing to journey together even if that journey leads toward destruction, transformation or the unknown. The imagery of 'flying toward the sun' evokes passion, devotion and inevitability... Just two people (as one) embracing both the beauty and fragility of love while accepting that endings and beginnings are intertwined. They are the end and beginning of each other ✨

27/05/2026

Art in unexpected places... ✨ Table top and sunlight ⭐

27/05/2026

Apparently a Reel is different to a post... 🤷🏻 ✨⭐

27/05/2026

This is a snippet from my rehearsal for Far Below, one of my original songs.

This song is about the end of a doomed love story, and the realisation that life carries on... Sung by an Angel/Being suspended above, looking down on their life, and realising they have outgrown their situation - and most importantly, they realise that their heart is still beating inside its weathered cage.

This song hits me so close to my core, and I love singing with my original voice 😭 ✨

Saturday night I will be performing my original music at Narara Ecovillage, the acoustics in the hall are incredible... so similar to the Cathedral in Seguenza Spain where I toured and sang a long time ago...

Intergalactica (Eventbrite) is going to be a moment of shared interstellar magic ✨

♥️

26/05/2026

As someone who is lucky enough to be a foreign born Australian Citizen, it never escapes me that this place is incredibly special - there's a magic on Country that can't be expressed, only felt.

There's a beauty in the traditional custodians of this land - first nations. Again, this transcends physical beauty... It's a feeling, being in the presence of people who carry the longest lineage...

I feel sorrow in my heart too, and I feel that "Sorry" sitting there, asking to be seen.

I understand that there is so much Sorry Business that still needs to happen - and I don't know if it ever will... Because some people are stubborn, people hold on to things they've been told. Things that keep the sorry from turning to healing... My heart goes out to anyone who is hurting today.

I am sorry, not because my ancestors were here, but because I have empathy for the pain that was caused by people who look like me... I also hold responsibility for what my ancestors did in South Africa also. The pain caused there.

This land was never ceded. Always was, always will be, Aboriginal land. ❤️ 💛 🖤

26/05/2026

The Lifted Curse, one of my original songs. My music has been edited over 10 years as I transitioned...

Performing with my past self is such a blessed experience, honoring the work of my past, by being a steward of these positive messages going forward.

30th May I will be performing ✨Intergalactica✨ at Narara Ecovillage in the evening, information in my Events Section and in comments ⭐❤️

This song is a myth about a young woman cursed to swim beneath the waves of her life, like the Coelacanth (thought extinct for millions of years, until one swam to the surface near Cape Town one day).

In the song, the girl realises that the only way to lift the curse, is to do it herself. By swimming as hard as she can towards the surface, rolling with the waves, and crashing onto the shore ahead, weaving through - even though the night is long.

She sees hope in the form of light breaking through the waters edge.

Nina Angelo
Yantra de Vilder
Suzie Brown

25/05/2026

Beautiful morning in Sydney today, then heading back up to the Central Coast for some time with an awesome client.