Chmba
Malawian DJ and producer Chmba shares her remarkable life story, from pulling apart cassette tapes to playing for Madonna.
Chmba is a DJ and music producer from Malawi who has achieved an international profile few can match. At an early age she started to pull apart her family’s cassettes in order to extract a track that she wanted to make her own mix tapes. She has come a long way since then.
She has DJd for none other than the queen of pop, Madonna on one of her many visits to Malawi. A few months after that, Madonna summoned her to Los Angeles to DJ for her at an Oscars afterparty with A-list celebrities in attendance. She has subsequently opened for Grammy award winners including Angelique Kidjo and Nile Rodgers.
She’s been named Glamour Magazine’s woman of the year and her charitable work has earned her recognition from Forbes and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, among others.
Chmba shares her remarkable life story and reveals details about her brand new EP, Okongola Caucus, which drops Friday 16th June.
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- Sat 17 Jun 2023 01:32GMTΒι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service East and Southern Africa & West and Central Africa only
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