The founder of TopUp Production, whose real name is Margarita Bönning-Ofori, is also known as dancehall dancer, teacher, choreographer and researcher. She was born in Nuremberg, Germany and is of chilean and german descent. She speaks german, english, spanish, portuguese and jamaican patois. Being the wife of Prince M.I.K. Ofori, their first son Kymani was born in 2017 and the second one Maleek in 2019.

Maggi has been involved in the german dancehall scene since 2006 and is recognised as one of Europe’s pioneers in dancehall dancing, especially non-dancehallqueen style, even though her career started off as official german dancehallqueen in 2010. In 2013 she founded the dancehall crew Primetime Danzas, who merged with Primetime Dimension in 2016 and trains new generations of dancehall dancers.

Since 2011 she has traveled to Jamaica regularly and started her education and research on Jamaican popular culture. During her undergraduate she volunteered and studied at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts in Kingston. Studying social- and cultural anthropology as a graduate in Berlin she realised the research of her master thesis in Jamaica and joined cultural studies at the Institute of Caribbean Studies at UWI, Mona. She then finalised her studies with a thesis titled „from the streets to the studio – the cultural institutionalisation of dancehall dancing: A transnational perspective from Jamaica“.

Swaggi Maggi is experienced and skilled in dancing oldskool, midskool and newskool Dancehall and a certified Stylish Moves teacher Level 1, 2 & 3, teaching regular classes in Berlin and workshops all over the world (Germany, Poland, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, Austria, Switzerland, Slovenia, Russia, Ukraine, Columbia, Chile, Brasil, …). She is known in Jamaica due to organising the TopUp Jamaica Trips from 2014 to 2019 and Europe Tours with Jamaican dancers.

Since 2019 she decided to not longer play a part in Dancehall tourism and largely pulled back from teaching workshops outside of Berlin due to a rising number of Jamaican dancehall dancers residing in Europe and being on tour.