OK SHE IS CURRENTLY MY FAVOURITE GIRL RAPPER FROM KENYA (SHE IS BASED IN NORWAY)....I LOVE HER SOOOO MUCH!!!!!!!!
BUT EMOTIONS ASIDE, SHE IS ONE TOTALY GREAT ARTIST, HARDWORKING, DETERMINED AND ON THE GO!!!
BORN 1ST SEPTEMBER IN 1986, STELLA MWANGI LOVED MUSIC SINCE A SMALL AGE, AND HER INTEREST MAINLY RESULTED FROM THE DISCRIMINATION HER AND HER FAMILY WERE SUBJECTED TO WHEN THEY MOVED TO NORWAY WHEN SHE WAS JUST 5YRS OLD....ALSO HER ELDER SIBLINGS LOVED LISTENING TO RAP MUSIC AND THIS PARTLY INSPIRED HER.
SHE STARTED PERFORMING PUBLICLY AT THE AGE OF 11 WHEN SHE JOINED A GROUP CALLED "THE RISE" AND THEY EVEN HAD AN ALBUM RECORDED WITH THE GROUP CALLED "MAROON". IN 1998 THEY PERFORMED FOR NELSON MANDELA WHILE HE WAS IN NORWAY FOR AN AIDS CAMPAIGN.
HOWEVER HER MAJOR BREAK CAME IN 2005 WHEN SHE WORKED WITH A SENEGALESE HIPHOP GROUP CALLED WAGABLE IN THEIR DEBUT ALBUM.
BUT DESPITE MOVING OUT TO NORWAY SHE HAS KEPT IT REAL TO HER ROOTS AND HER MORTHERLAND, KENYA....HER MUSIC IS EITHER DONE FOR OR IS REPRESENTATIVE OF KENYA, WHILE AT THE SAME TIME REPPING FOR ALL GIRLS OUT THERE AND KEEPING IT FRESH!!
"FRESH TO DEATH WITH A CAP TAGGED STL"
IN 2008 SHE RELEASED HER FIRST SINGLE "TAKING IT BACK" WHICH WAS RECEIVED VERY WELL IN BOTH KENYA AND SCANDNAVIA...IT HIT EAST AFRICAN CHARTS NO 1 FOR 4WEEKS RUNNING!!
HER SECOND SINGLE "DREAMER" BLEW UP EVEN FURTHER AND WAS ON THE EAST AFRICAN CHARTS FOR 5WEEKS!!! ITS MY PERSONAL FAVOURITE AND I CANT EVER GET ENOUGH OF THIS SONG..I THINK ITS LIKE MY MINI ANTHEM.
(THIS VIDEO REMINDS ME OF LUPE'S - SUPERSTAR, dont you think???) AWESOME ALL THE SAME!!!
ALL THIS SONGS WERE FROM HER DEBUT ALBUM "LIVING FOR MUSIC" AND JUST THIS YEAR SHE REALESED ANOTHER SONG FROM THE ALBUM "SHE GOT IT/ KOOL GIRLS" THIS SONGS BROKE ALL THE RECORDS AND NOT ONLY WAS IT A HIT ALL OVER EAST AFRICAN AND YET AGAIN A NO.1 FOR NUMEROUS WEEKS IT WAS ALSO ONE OF THE MOST PLAYED SONGS ON MTV BASE AFRICA AND CHANNEL O...
ALL THIS HARDWORK IS SLOWLY PAYING OF AND SHE WAS EVEN NOMINATED FOR "THE BEST NEW ACT" AT MTV AFRICAN MUSIC AWARDS (OCTOBER 2009)....SHE ALSO PERFORMED ALONGSIDE D'BANJ AND WANDE COAL...
HER SONGS, "CRAZY", "FEELING LOVE" AND "SWING" HAVE BEEN USED IN VARIOUS AMERICAN SERIES AND MOVIES INCLUDING: SAVE THE LAST DANCE, AMERICAN PIE, REDLINE, CSI NY, LAS VEGAS, GHOST WHISPERERS, SCRUBS, AMERICAN TOP MODEL AND ARMY WIVES
SHE HAS CURTAIN RAISED FOR MANY ARTISTS INCLUDING TALIB KWELI, COMMON, ADJELIQUE KIDJO, BUSTA RHYMES, RICK ROSS, FLO-RIDA ETC
SHE CONTINUES RELEASING HIT AFTER HIT, HER LATEST BEEN "BIACARA NI BIACARA" MEANING BUSINESS IS BUSINESS IN HER NATIVE TRIBAL LANGUAGE IN KENYA "KIKUYU" SOMETHING EVEN THE ARTISTS WHO HAVE SPEND ALL THEIR LIFE IN KENYA CANT DO!
DESPITE EVERYTHING HAPPENING AROUND HER SO FAST, SHE IS THE MOST DOWN TO EARTH ARTIST I HAVE MET (I HAVE MET HER ON TWO OCCASSIONS) AND SHE IS ALWAYS KEEPING IN TOUCH WITH HER FANS ON FACEBOOK, TWITTER AND HER WEBSITE! SHE ALSO KEEPS IN TOUCH WITH ALL HAPPENING IN KENYA AND EVEN RELEASED A SONG
DURING THE POST ELECTION VIOLENCE CRISIS IN KENYA
AND WAS ALSO PART OF SAVE THE MAU FOREST CAMPAIGN IN KENYA
SHE HOPES TO BE SIGNED BY A MAJOR LABEL SOON, SOMETHING I BELIEVE SHE WILL ACHIEVE AND EVEN MORE...SHE ROCKS!!!
HERE'S ANOTHER OF HER SONGS WHICH SHE DID AS A REMIX FOR MC HAMMERS "MOVE IT" - ME LOVE IT!:
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