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Also known as Stella Nyambura Mwangi

Kenyan-Norwegian singer, rapper and songwriter

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Stella Mwangi is a Kenyan and Norwegian singer, songwriter, rapper, and model. Born in Nairobi in 1986, she has been active in the music industry since 2007. Her work spans several genres, including pop, afrobeat, dance, electro house, and hip hop. She performs as a contralto and plays the piano. Mwangi speaks English and Norwegian.

She participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011. Her musical output includes five recorded works. She maintains an official website and has accumulated 92,926 social media followers. On Last.fm, her music has been played 309,702 times by 36,911 listeners, with tags including "norwegian," "Hip-Hop," and "Eurovision."

Synthesized by Vinony from 28 facts across 5 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, Vinony graph. 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
afrobeatdanceelectro househip hoppopsoul

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
36,911
Total plays
309,702

Tags

norwegianHip-HopNorwayEurovisionfemale vocalists

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

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Quotes

  • To say something is impossible is to fear. I have no space for the word impossible. I don't tolerate it. Sometimes it gets me in trouble, but whatever it is, I will face it.

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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

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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.

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