ABOUT CARINA

Carina Bruwer-Pugliese is a SAMA-winning musician and producer, and owner / founder of Five Seasons Entertainment, one of the largest entertainment agencies in South Africa. Interestingly, Carina came to prominence in the media (in South Africa and beyond) during the early nougthies as a marathon swimmer, having broken numerous long-standing open water swimming records, both locally and internationally.

Carina's versatility and tenacity has resulted in extensive media coverage, including lifestyle features on Gillette World Sport (international), Pasella (SABC2), The Power Within (SABC3), Kwela (Kyknet); as well as prime time news inserts on SABC1, 2 and 3 and ETV.  In print media she has made the front page of most local newspapers, and has been featured in glossies including Sarie, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Sports Illustrated and Shape Magazine, amongst many others, while she was featured as one of Glamour mag's 12 "Women We Loved" and a “Cosmo Awesome Woman".

An acclaimed and multi-award winning flautist, Carina holds the degree BMus(Hons) cum laude. She is a versatile soloist known for seamlessly fusing classical and contemporary styles (jazz, Latin and ethnic) in her performances. She currently performs exclusively as part of South Africa's instrumental supergroup Sterling EQ.

When not on stage, Carina - also a mother of two - remains involved in the strategic direction of Five Seasons Entertainment, specialising in the areas of artist management, entertainment PR, and entertainment event production. Five Seasons is recognised as one of the largest and most reputable entertainment agencies of its sort in South Africa.

As a swimmer Carina holds the female world record for the Straits of Gibraltar crossing (16km), the record for the fastest swim around Robben Island (11km), as well as for the 8.5km swim around Cape Point. She is the only South African woman, and one of only 4 swimmers ever, to cross the notorious waters of False Bay (35km). In July/August '05 she crossed the English Channel (36km) and was the female winner of the 26km International Swimming Crossing of the Toroneos Gulf in Greece within 8 days of each other. Carina, the first recipient of the Supersport Champion Awards, is also the only swimmer to have rounded both the southern-most (11km) and northern-most (16km) points of Africa; she became the first South African to round Cape Point (8km) and Cape Agulhas (11km), and is the only swimmer to have successfully rounded Danger Point (10,5km) near Gansbaai - the "White Shark Capital of the World".