He began as a choral singer in the early 1980s in Cape Town, South Africa – at which time he acquired his first computer, a VIC-20.

Marais first earned acclaim as lead singer/frontman of the South African art-rock band Duusman[1] and as saxophonist for the group Tsunami; he also served as producer on three award-winning albums honoring poet Breyten Breytenbach and formed half of the Afrikaans pop duo 12 Hz with Riku Lätti.

[2] He garnered South Africa's prestigious Avanti Craft award for his score to the short film "Angels in a Cage.

In 2009, he was selected as the winner in the audio category of the Ubuntu 9.04 Free Culture Showcase and his song "Invocation" was distributed with that version of the OS.

MoShang recently completed the original score for the National Geographic Channel (Asia) documentary "Koxinga: A Hero's Legacy".