Manon Bannerman's Real Name: Meret Manon Bannerman

Quick answer: Manon Bannerman's documented full name is Meret Manon Bannerman. Bluewin calls her a Lucerne-born singer by that name, a member of the K-pop group Katseye. Blick independently uses Meret Manon Bannerman and describes her as a Lucerne woman of Swiss-Ghanaian background (Bluewin; Blick).

Real name and early life

She is known professionally as Manon or Manon Bannerman. Both sources use Meret Manon Bannerman. Bluewin says she was born in Lucerne and grew up in Sursee, in the canton of Lucerne, and in Zurich, that her mother has Swiss-Italian roots and her father is from Ghana, and that as a teenager she wrote songs, played the ukulele and piano, and built a following on Instagram and TikTok. Blick independently calls her a Lucerne woman and a Swiss-Ghanaian, and, in a September 2025 article, refers back to a visit when she was 23 and to the Dream Academy finale, when it called her a 21-year-old Swiss woman. Neither article gives a calendar birth date.

Career highlights

Bluewin says Katseye was formed in 2023 through the international casting show The Debut: Dream Academy, produced by HYBE and Geffen Records, ran from September 1 to November 17, 2023, and was later documented in the Netflix series Pop Star Academy: Katseye, released in August 2024. It says the six-member group includes Manon from Switzerland, lives and works in Los Angeles, has released two EPs, and had about 37 million monthly Spotify listeners, and that Katseye received Grammy nominations for Best New Artist and Best Pop Duo/Group, with a live performance planned around February 1 to 2, 2026, making her the first Swiss woman nominated in two of those main categories. At the February 1, 2026, ceremony, the Recording Academy's winners list shows Katseye did not win either award: Olivia Dean won Best New Artist, and Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande won Best Pop Duo/Group Performance. The group performed "Gnarly" in the Best New Artist segment (GRAMMY.com). Blick independently describes a year-long casting from about 120,000 applicants down to six members, and says the group won the MTV Video Music Award for MTV Push Performance of the Year with the song "Touch" on September 7, 2025.

Name notes for searchers

Meret Manon Bannerman is the documented full name in both Bluewin and Blick; the professional name is often Manon or Manon Bannerman. Searchers looking for the Swiss member of Katseye are usually aiming at the same person.