Mignon Geli was born in San Francisco, California. She is of Filipino, Spanish, and Mayan ancestry.
For the past 17 years, Mignon has been living in the California Sierra Foothills by Coloma, in Nisenan-Maidu country. Thirteen years ago, her son gifted her with a native wood flute. She is self-taught, plays by ear, and has added native drums to her repertoire. She can flute along in many genres of music from traditional native to contemporary native, to folk, rock, jazz, funk, soul, etc.
Mignon is also a member of the Neena McNair Family Drum, a multi-cultural women’s traditional native drum group, a broadcaster with Indigenous Soul Music & Radio, a co-producer of the Global Indigenous Peoples Village at the California Worldfest Music Festival, plays with Soul-A-Mente, which mixes Indigenous soul music with diverse genres and instruments, and an active supporter of and participant with the Buffalo Field Campaign!