60-Year-Old “Mammabear” to Open One of Mzansi’s Biggest Dance Festivals, Started Making Music to Honour Son

• Joy Steffens started DJing to honour her late son, Dylan, who died of cancer in 2016, his dream was to become a DJ
• She rose to fame during the Covid19 lockdown through her DJing and has inspired a lot of people with her ability
• Joy, affectionately known as “Mammabear”, has been asked to open the famous H20 dance festival which often features some of Mzansi's biggest artists

Joy Steffens, affectionately known as “Mammabear” has been asked to open one of South Africa's biggest dance festivals. She started DJing during the Covid19 lockdown to honour her son who tragically died.

The organisers of the H2O event asked Joy to open the festival to honour her son, Dylan. He tragically lost his battle with cancer in 2016 and had dreamed of being a DJ.

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The first H2O dance festival took place 22 years ago and regularly features some of the biggest names in SA music. Huge acts such as Black Coffee, DJ Fresh, Euphonik and Roger Goode have featured at the festival according to Good Things Guy.

Joy took to social media to celebrate the good news that she would be opening the H2O festival.

"A few years ago I attended my 1st #musicfestival @H2O_party and I have been asked to open up on #mainstage as a #deejay in honour of my late son #Dylan in October. Thank you to all for believing in me & assisting me through this journey thank u God for my healing with #music"

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Source: Briefly News