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Stella Mwangi
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Kenyan-Norwegian singer, rapper and songwriter
OverviewAI-generated
Stella Mwangi is a Kenyan-Norwegian singer, songwriter, rapper, and model. Born in Nairobi in 1986, she holds citizenship in both Kenya and Norway. Her musical career began in 2007, and she performs in the genres of pop, afrobeat, dance, electro house, and hip hop. She plays the piano and sings as a contralto.
Mwangi speaks English and Norwegian. She participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011. Her work is associated with tags including Norwegian, Hip-Hop, and female vocalists.
Synthesized by Vinony from 21 facts across 3 sources: Wikidata, MusicBrainz, Last.fm. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- Kenya
- Active from
- 1986
Discography
- Living For Music2008
- Haba Haba [(Eurovision 2011 - Norway)]2011
- Kinanda2011
- You Got Me2018
- MA ITŪ2019
- Watch2021
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 36,911
- Total plays
- 309,702
Tags
Stella Nyambura Mwangi (also known as Stella and STL) is a Norwegian hip-hop artist on MTG records. She was born in Nairobi, Kenya, but moved to Norway as a 4-year old. In 2006, she released an EP with some famous Kenyan guest artists, and became the best female newcomer in Kenya. Her songs is used on many TV series and movies like “American Pie”, “Save the Last Dance 2”, “CSI New York” and “Ghost Whisperer”. In 2011, Mwangi participated <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Stella+Mwangi">Read
Key facts
- Also known as
- Stella, STL
- Born
- Stella Nyambura Mwangi , ( 1986-09-01 ) 1 September 1986 (age 39) , Nairobi , Kenya
- Origin
- Eidsvoll , Norway
- Genres
- Pop , hip hop , dance , trap , electro house
- Occupations
- Singer songwriter rapper
- Years active
- 2007 - present
- Labels
- MTG Mwangi Big City EMI Ubiloud
- Website
- stellamwangi .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Stella
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Norway
- Place of birth
- Nairobi
- Occupation
- songwriter
- Languages spoken
- Norwegian
- Participant in
- Eurovision Song Contest 2011
- Genre
- pop music
- Instrument
- voice
- Official website
- stellamwangi.com
- Image
- Stella Mwangi at Handelsstevnet 2011 (6115427853).jpg
- Voice type
- contralto
Show 5 more facts
- Commons category
- Stella Mwangi
- date of birth
- 1986-09-01
- pseudonym
- Stella Mwangi
- start of work period
- 2007-00-00
- social media followers
- 91550
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Encyclopedic overview
Stella Nyambura Mwangi (born 1 September 1986) is a Kenyan-Norwegian singer, rapper, and songwriter. Her work has been used in films such as American Pie Presents: The Naked Mile and Save the Last Dance 2, and also in TV-series such as CSI: NY, Scrubs and Survival of The Thickest. She represented Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 in Düsseldorf with the song "Haba Haba".
Early and personal life
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Stella Mwangi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.