Born in September 1986, Stella Mwangi aka STL realized her potential in music at the age of Six. Her interest in music resulted from racial discrimination she was subjected to following her family’s move from Kenya to Norway in 1991.
Since Stella was 11 years she has activ on the Norwegian hip hop scene.
In 1998, she worked with an African Youth group known as “The Rise” where they produced and released an album called “Maroon”.
She then started curtain rising for various hip hop artists such as Common and Talib Kweli followed by Angelique Kidjo, Busta Rhymes, Rick Ross and Flo-Rida to name few.
In 2005 Stella Mwangi and The R.I.S.E got the opportunity to perform for the one and only, Nelson Mandela while he was in Norway for an AIDS eradication campaign.
Her Break into the African Hip Hop scene came in 2005 when she worked with a Senegalese Hip Hop group called Wagable in their Debut album, Senegal, produced by www.big-city.no
She featured in two of their hit songs ‘Babylon’ and ‘Do it’ which topped the charts in Senegal and Gambia for several weeks. The album scooped the Best album of the year in Senegal for 2005.
In 2006 Stella won the Kisima Awards for the most promising artist of the year.
Stella’s single ‘Take it back’ was a major hit in Africa and in Scandinavia.
It was #1 on the east African charts in 2008, followed by her second single ‘The Dreamer’ from her debut album ‘Living For Music’ which was released October 20th 2008 in Scandinavia and Africa.
Stella released her third single ‘She got it/Kool girls’ spring 2009 from her debut album. The song has been # 1 on the east African charts and still is one of the most played songs on MTV Base and Channel O which broadcasts across the whole Africa.
Since her debut album release, Stella Mwangi has been touring in Scandinavia, USA and Africa.
Her songs, “Crazy”, “Feeling Love” and “Swing”, which she wrote with The DNC was picked by the Position Music and Choice Tracks (based in L.A) as a soundtrack for the films Save the last dance, American pie, Redline and the series; CSI (New York) , Las Vegas, Ghost whisperer, Scrubs, American Top Model and Army Wives to name few.
Stella Mwangi is currently working on her second album.
Here is her video “The Dreamer” from last year.
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She Got It – Stella Mwangi aka STL
