Tshala muana bio
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Biography
Born
13 May
Born In
Lubumbashi, Haut-Katanga, Congo, the Democratic Republic of the
Died
10 December (aged 64)
Tshala Muana (May 13, - December 10, ) was a singer from the Democratic Republic of Congo. She began her career as a dancer for the great Zairian singer Abeti Massikini, practising "mutwashi" dances from the Kasai region. In the 80's she began performing as a singer. She
has enjoyed success in several West African countries, more so than in her own country.
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Tshala Muana
Birth place
Élisabethville, Belgian Congo (Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo)
Label(s)
Charly Records, Shanachie Records, Celluloid Records
Occupation
Singer-Songwriter, Dancer
Origin
Lubumbashi, Democratic of the Congo
Élisabeth Tshala Muana Muidikay, aliasTshala Muana, (Lubumbashi, May 13, ) is a singer and dancer from Congo-Kinshasa. She started her artistic career as a dancer for the musical band Tsheke Tsheke Love in She is famous for several songs such as Karibu Yangu. She has won several awards on the national, continental and global scene. She has never been married, Her being the wife of Claude Mashala is not accurate as he is married legitimately to another woman in with who he shares 5 children.
Biography[]
Tshala Muana, the second of ten siblings, is the daughter of Amadeus Muidikayi, a soldier, and Alphonsine Bambiwa Tumba, a housewife.
In , barely six years old, she lost her father, murdered in Watsha by the Ulelist maquis during the Katanga war. She was raised by her mother, who died in
She has never been married before. She dated a politician who is a married man in the year ’s and she has marketed him as her husband ever since.
On June 7, , she gave sign of life after rumours of her death were spread.
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