Eric Manyelo aka Aero Manyelo was born in Zebediela, Limpopo in 1987. At age five his family moved to Ivory Park where he grew up. He developed a strong love for music due to his father, who introduced him into jazz. He later studied at Johannesburg Central College where he completed his Matric. His career as a producer / DJ started when he got his first PC and started making demos. Those demos’s soon made it to the doors of Soul Candi, who invited him to study Sound Engineering, and later BlackwHole Entertainment, who released his first EP called Herbal Island.