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Mohombi Nzasi Moupondo (Mohombi)

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Biography

Mohombi Nzasi Moupondo (born 17 October 1985) is a Congolese-Swedish musician, singer, composer and dancer. He grew up in Norsborg and Kista near Stockholm. Mohombi was RedOne’s first signing to 2101 Records in joint venture with Universal Music Group.[2] From 2000 to 2008, Mohombi was part of the Swedish hip hop group Avalon with his brother Djo Moupondo. Mohombi released his debut solo single “Bumpy Ride” in August 2010. The single became a worldwide hit, and charted in the top-ten in several countries, and was followed by his debut studio album MoveMeant in February 2011. Mohombi was born to a Swedish mother and a Congolese father. He has 14 siblings.[3] Mohombi and his family left the war-torn Congo and emigrated to Stockholm, Sweden in 1999 when Mohombi was 13. When he turned 20 years old, Mohombi rented a room in Radio 1 UAE’s Simon B’s childhood house just to get to know him better. His parents regularly exposed him to varied musical influences from early on in his childhood[4] Mohombi studied at Rytmus Music High School in Stockholm and appeared early on stage, in 2002 in the Swedish revival of Wild Side Story.[5][6] He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in music from the Royal College of Music, Stockholm. He speaks English, French, Lingala, Spanish, Swahili and Swedish. In Stockholm, Mohombi and his brother Djo Moupondo, a local club DJ known as DJ Djo formed the group Avalon[8][non-primary source needed][non-primary source needed] combining the dancehall and hip hop of the time with the distinctive African beats on which they were raised. From 2004 to 2008 the group sold over half a million records and won the All African Kora Awards, an African equivalent of the Grammy for the category Best Group – Diaspora Europe/Caribbean category, while Mohombi became a prolific songwriter in his own right. At this point, music was only a part-time job, and looking for something more, Mohombi headed to Los Angeles to delop further his career. In 2005, Avalon participated in the Melodifestivalen, in a bid to qualify for Eurovision Song Contest 2005 representing Sweden with English and French multilingual song “Big Up” that also included an intro in Lingala language. Also in 2005, the duo Avalon participated in the show “sthlm”, an annual music festival organized at Lava Kulturhuset.

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Mohombi is a well known sweden musican and also recognised world wide, his achievements are as follows: Kora All African Music Awards 2003, Kora All African Music Awards 2004, 2008/2009: Kora All African Music Awards Nominee 2009/2010 – Best African Artist/Group, MTV European Music Awards 2011 – Nomination: Best Singer Swedish of the Year., 2011: nominated for Swedish Grammis for Bumpy Ride., Latin Italian Music Awards 2015 – Mohombi wins a Latin Italian Music Awards for his participation on Pitbull’s album DALE., U.S Grammy Award 2016 – Best Latin Album. Mohombi wins a grammy for his participation on Pitbull’s album DALE., Billboard Music Award 2016 – Mohombi wins a Billboard Award for his participation on Pitbull’s album DALE, Big Apple Music Award 2017 – Best African Act Awards., n 2018: Mohombi is nominated for the Daf Bama Music Awards in the category of Best African Artist of the Year., In 2018: Mohombi is nominated for the Latin Grammy Awards as a composer of J Balvin album Vibras, Melodifestivalen 2019. 2019: Mohombi wins an award in the BMI Award 2019, in the category: contemporary Latin song of the year to be composer on the title Mi Gente of J Balvin.

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