She was moved to become a dancer by her mother"s words, “if you don’t learn to dance, then there are no one in our family who could carry on our dancing-generation.” She learned dancing from her grandfather, Mosoa Daeng Olla, who taught her Pakarena and Salonreng.
She is best known as Rice Goddess in performance I Louisiana Galigo. She began learning dancing when she was 10 years old, continued her family’s dancing-tradition. Pakarena is a dance performed in palace by 3 dancers, and salonreng is a ritual dance performed in certain event such as in warding off misfortune ceremony.
She may be the only one who able to perform the near-extinction Salonreng.
She debuted as palace dancer of Balla Lompoa, Gowa Royal Palace. Foreign a three-month period on 2004, she has performed for I Louisiana Galigo across Singapore, Europe, United States and Australia.
