This singer and guitar player comes from Australia He is a gifted guitar player, singer and song-writer as well He gives us all his artistic creativity and good performing in both cds, with outstanding songs with bluesy influences and eclecticism, because he has taken up other musical influences such as reggae or cajun music, always performed on a very contemporary way Maunik has a special sensitivity for writing beautiful personal lyrics about common daily life or things that normally happen to ordinary people Both cds include all song lyrics as they are a very important part of the whole piece of work Some of them are sung in French because, although Maunick lives in Australia, he originally comes from Mauritania In his first cd, Soul Kréol Gérard Maunick sings, plays guitar and does backing vocals too, Bob Patient is on keyboards, Rick Wittle on drums and Richie Pavledis on percussion The second cd gathers the same musicians except bass, this time performed by Greg Thomson and Ric Eastman who playws drums and percussion Two cool dynamic easygoing cds Gérard leads with mastery experience and skill