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Artist
Shiko Mawatu
5+ albums
Congolese Music RockscongoRDCongo
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Shiko Mawatu's album, Kimbanda Nzila is the Oustanding World Music album nominee for the 39th NAACP Image Awards. It is indeed a wonderful CD + DVD in one package, which has successfully captured a great African ambiance! Shiko Mawatu grew up in a family where music came naturally. His father was an accomplished accordion player and his two brothers Jean Waini Mobunda Mawatu and Rocky Lisaso sung for the Simba Band in Kinshasa, Congo. With a musical upbringing, Shiko Mawatu felt the liberty of exploring other musical influences of his environment in his native city of Kinshasa. In his early teens, he exercised his writing ambitions by collaborating with Veve Verckys Kiamuangana, the famous Congolese producer & musician who had discovered him as a young talent. Still in his teens, he formed a band “Le Paty – Bana Ngenge” with his friends Aziza and Tofolo also gifted musicians. They collaborated as talented musicians and they performed Shiko’s originals at local venues for years. He decided to pursue a solo career to better express his talent as a musician, an arranger, a songwriter, and a singer. Later on, he discovered a talent, the singer Vonga Aye and they both ended up working with the famous saxophonist Empopo Loway to form a band with Vonga Aye as their female lead vocalist. They all worked with the guitar legend Dr. Nico Kasanda Wa Mikalayi who then took them to Europe for the recording of their first album, “Bonbon Kojak.” The success Shiko had achieved as a guitar p
