Our frends at Putamayo Records bring us another global talent! Mapumba! Mapumba is featured on Putamayo's African Party compilation release and African Dreamland , the new luuabye album for children of the world!! Just returning from the LEAF Festival in Asheville NC. Maumpa is live on UPop. Visit Mapumba on line @ www.mapumba.co.za Born Dieu Merci Mapumba Cilombo in a small town of Kolwezi in DR Congo, Mapumba’s childhood was one filled with political and social instability. Around the age of thirteen when a deadly tribal conflict broke out, Mapumba was sent
to Zambia by his family where he finished his higher education. With such
an uncertain life Mapumba found refuge in music by teaching himself in voice, guitar and piano through out high school and college. Eventually Mapumba embarked on a quest to find a place that could let him make music his career And so in the year 2000 mapumba arrived in the city of Cape town South Africa with a guitar as his only companion.
Here Mapumba exposed himself to various styles of music and performances to learn as much as he could in becoming an inspiring singer, song writer, composer, producer and a multi instrumentalist whose creativity evolves with every single performance.
Singing in French, English, Chiluba and Swahili, Mapumba has one well selling debut album entitled Mapumba, which the Cape Times describes as... " a brilliantly self produced and self composed album with a fantastic combination of beautiful ballads and some groovy upbeat African themes.
All Diversely blended by his rich soothing velvet voice. A sound that can only
be simply called world music...!"
His music is a simple sound inspired by different styles from his ethnic elements to modern sounds of soul music. All blended by his rich velvet voice and unique style of musical arrangement. Mapumba sings about personal stories of his life and moral issues most of all portraying the message
of love and unity.
mapumba is also a field presenter for the well known travel magazine show Studio 53 on DSTV's satellite tv. This show takes him to many African
countries inclunding Mali and Sudan to name a few. This is also a great inspiriration and insight for mapumba about the cultures of our lovely
continent which he continues to reflect in his music.Asheville NC. Listen to the interview podcast at I Tunes....