Shane is a singer and musician from The Bluff, a suburb of Durban, South Africa, who now resides in Cornwall, England.

His love of music was inspired largely by his mom, Valerie, who taught him to sing and play acoustic guitar from an early age.  Shane wrote the lyrics for the Grosvenor Boys’ High School song in 1989.  He played in his local Church folk choir every Sunday evening.  He completed a Radio DJ’s course in 1993.  It wasn't till 1994 that Shane first purchased and played an electric guitar (a Japanese Fender Squier) and not much later a distortion pedal (Boss HM-3)!  It was around this time that Shane began writing his own original songs and then enrolled in a bridging course at the Natal Technikon intending to aim for a degree in music, but dropped out.  He began practising with local musicians and friends and eventually began playing original music in Durban in the late 90s, first performing with No Real Stars together with Paul Phipson (guitar and vocals) and Brayton Johnston (bass) in 1997.  

He founded several low key, alternate, modern rock bands (in which he sang and played guitar) together with his sister, Tarryn (who played bass and sang backing vocals), including Heaven’s Trench, Flawed together with Raul Diaz (drums), Glum, which was then renamed as Klown together with James Broom (drums), and Arrestikaydee, together with Donovan Banks (guitar) and Raul Diaz (drums), gigging at the Beach Grove, Leroy’s, Siesta Bar, The Winston, Dusk Till Dawn, Jamie’s, Burn and various other venues (not to forget a memorable performance when Heaven's Trench opened for Sunways in the performance tent at the Mr Price Pro).  

He also enjoyed playing bass guitar in Afflicted Truth, together with Hilton Lazenby (guitar and vocals), Grant Lazenby (guitar) and Johnny Morte (drums) and then a short stint as drummer; after Johnny quit.

Over the years, he also loved going to the Durban Folk Club with his family to watch incredible local artists perform (including his uncle Alan who would often play Albert Hammond and The Who numbers).  Eventually, Shane performed a few original songs there on a few occasions solo, duo (with Tarryn) and trio (with Tarryn and Valerie).  In the year 2000, he began teaching guitar lessons together with his mother who had then been teaching music for several years, and then also some drum lessons before moving to England.

Shane sang and played guitar, bass guitar, violin and keyboards at various Churches, soup kitchens and hospitals, while training for several years for the priesthood, in London and then Illinois, U.S.A. (where he took his first vows in 2004), then spending a year back in Cedara, South Africa, where he was fortunate to sing in Ama-Oblates kaMaria Ongenasici (who recorded an album in 2006 called UDUMO) before deciding to quit his religious studies, returning to his hometown, The Bluff, where he later performed a gig playing guitar in Pilot On Board where he was reunited with Paul Phipson (guitar and vocals) and together with Raymond Goodfellow (bass and vocals) and Warren Rautenbach (drums).

He married Tanya Blanche in 2008 and together they started Chromatic Evolution music lessons (teaching guitar, bass guitar, drums, keyboards and violin) and formed a band  together with Shirley Myburgh (bass) and Warren Benard (drums) which they called Pure Motive.