Loading details…
Artist
Young Deenay
12+ albums
hip hoppop90sHip-Hopeurorap
about
Fatima Napo, known by her stage name Young Deenay (born 14 January 1979 in Bandiagara, Mali), is a former German rapper. Fatima Napo attended the Graf-Gottfried-Gymnasium (now Franz-Stock-Gymnasium) in Arnsberg. She studied psychology at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and is currently working as a certified psychologist, among other locations, in Berlin. Her greatest success as a rapper was the single Walk on By (1997), which remained on the charts for 14 weeks and climbed to fifth place. On her single Wannabe Your Lover (1998), she helped launch the career of her then-background singer Sasha. For Sasha’s first hit I'm Still Waitin', the roles had already reversed, with Young Deenay only contributing short segments to the song. She later performed with the band Amma La Dogon. In June 2008, she published her first book, Eine afrikanische Perspektive der Psychologie (An African Perspective on Psychology), through Verlag Dr. Müller. In the book, she provides a historical and scientific analysis arguing why Western psychology is unsuitable for understanding and explaining the experiences and behaviours of people of African descent. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
