Damso
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William Kalubi Mwamba (born 10 May 1992 in Kinshasa), better known by his stage name Damso (), is a Belgian-Congolese rapper, singer, and songwriter. He is popular in France, where all of his albums have been certified at least platinum.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 6
Top works
- Letters to My Stepsister in Heaven
- Welcome to the Awesome Team
- Letters to My Dog in Heaven
- Walk with Me a Baby's Story
- Walk with Me a Girlfriend's Story
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- Belgium
- Active from
- 1992
Discography
- Salle d'attente2014
- Comment faire un tube2015
- Batterie Faible2016
- Débrouillard2016
- Paris c'est loin2016
- Pris c'est loin2016
- Ipséité2017
- CQFD2018
- Fais-moi un vie2018
- Lithopédion2018
Member of
- OPG2006–2014
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- Listeners
- 169,096
- Total plays
- 22,497,809
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William Kalubi better known by his stage name Damso (born in Kinshasa on 10 May 1992) is a Belgian Congolese rapper and songwriter. He released his first solo project Salle d'attente online as a free download in 2014. In collaboration with his band OPG, he released his mixtape MMMXIII on 24 September 2014. He was signed to Universal Music with which he has released two albums, Batterie Faible in 2016 and Ipséité in 2017. Both albums are certified platinum and Ipséité certified 4x platinum in 201
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Key facts
- Musical artist.name
- Damso
- Musical artist.background
- solo_singer
- Musical artist.image
- Festival des Vieilles Charrues 2018 - Damso - 009 (cropped).jpg
- Musical artist.caption
- Damso performing at Vieilles Charrues Festival on 21 July 2018
- Musical artist.birth_name
- William Kalubi Mwamba
- Musical artist.alias
- Damso
- Musical artist.birth_place
- Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Musical artist.origin
- Brussels, Belgium
- Musical artist.years_active
- 2006–2025
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- Festival des Vieilles Charrues 2018 - Damso - 009 (cropped).jpg
- Number of children
- 1
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- date of birth
- 1991-05-10
- birth name
- William Kalubi Mwamba
- Commons category
- Damso
- pseudonym
- Damso
- start of work period
- 2006-00-00
- social media followers
- 2240000
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Article
16 sectionsContents
- Early life and education
- Career
- Artistry
- Musical style and influences
- Themes
- Personal life
- Controversy
- Concerts
- Discography
- Albums
- Mixtapes
- Singles
- As lead artist
- As featured artist
- Other charted or certified songs
- References
William Kalubi Mwamba (born 10 May 1992 in Kinshasa), better known by his stage name Damso (), is a Belgian-Congolese rapper, singer, and songwriter. He is popular in France, where all of his albums have been certified at least platinum.
==Early life and education== Kalubi was born in Kinshasa, Zaire (present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo) to a sociologist mother and cardiologist father. When he was nine years old, he and his family left the country for Belgium because of the bloody armed conflict which he speaks about in his song Graine de sablier ("the shots of the Kalashnikov keep me from dreaming"), Exutoire ("kill everyone even the pregnant women"), and K. Kin la belle ("oh Kin [Kinshasa] the beautiful, the one that's caused me so much pain). They initially settled in Kraainem, a commune on the outskirts of Brussels, where Damso grew up before moving when Damso was 22 to the largely Congolese neighborhood of Matonge in Ixelles. William's mother is Rose Marthe.