Mayonde Biography
Mayonde is a Kenyan musician and songwriter known for her songs like ‘Nairobi’ ft. Stonee Jiwe among others, Mayonde started singing when she was a little girl in the kid’s choir at church. Her soulful-electric-chill musical style, stellar vocal presence, and beautiful song-writing earned her thousands of instant fans, culminating in her debut performance at one of East Africa’s most popular performance venues, Blankes and Wine.
Mayonde is the last born in a family of four. She has one brother and two sisters and as the last born in the family, She was a little spoilt. She was also very introverted and shy. She was chubby, so the boys would make fun of her. It really messed my confidence. It was sad watching other girls get hit on but it was never my turn, instead, the boys would bully and make fun of me because of my weight.
She went to high school at Statehouse Girls’ School and became very active. She was in every club from choir to drama and swimming. State House had an art culture. Entertainment was our forte. As a result of being active, she shed the fat. She was more confident and even started a singing group called ‘The Jesus Freaks’ with two of my friends.
Mayonde Age
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Mayonde Real Name
The real name of the songwriter is Diana Mayonde Nduba.
Mayonde Family
The songstress has three siblings, two sisters, and one brother and was the fourth born among her siblings. Her father is a Kenyan while her mother is a Rwandese. As a young girl, she was shy and chubby. These boys used to make fun of her due to her chubbiness which negatively affected her confidence.
While other girls would be hit on by boys, Mayonde used to get sad because her turn seemed as though it would never come.
Mayonde Marriage | Husband
She and Mbithi married in 2013 in a colorful wedding ceremony. Mbithi is a creative director and a member of just a Band. The couple has been in a relationship in their early age. Apparently, Mayonde was 17 years of age when they started their relationship. Mayonde refers to Mbithi as “My first love”.
Mayonde Education
The singer Mayonde went to Statehouse Girls School. She became very active in high school clubs, from choir to swimming and drama. Statehouse is a high school that promoted an art culture. She took advantage of such opportunities to fun her gifts thus her with two of her friends, they formed a singing group known as ‘The Jesus Freaks’.
As a result of being so much active in high school, Mayonde cut off some weight. Eventually, she started to build confidence and become more social. According to her, confidence came naturally when she realized that she could do something.
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Music Journey
After high school, she knew she loved music but did not know exactly what she wanted to do, so her dad helped her choose to study communication at University. He told her that he had a dream that she would do great things in communication. Mayonde began studying communication at Daystar University but her hunger for music would not let her be. She had a copy of Aaron Rumbai’s album; Crucial Keys and behind the album was the Kijiji Records contacts. Mayonde would call them every day begging for something, anything. Around the same time, her elder sister joined Mavuno Church. Her sister is not like me, she is the ultimate extrovert and knows everyone. When she found out that she knew Blackman, the producer at Kijiji, she begged her to introduce her. He called me for auditions, asked me to sing a song and the rest is history. Looking back she felt like that one moment completely changed her life. Blackman has been her great mentor.
The mission was to influence pop culture for Jesus. Because they were under Kijiji Records, she got my first gig as a backup singer. Together with a friend called Shiro, they were BGVs (background vocals) for the group. It was a little intimidating at first because the others are so big in the industry but they were so nice to us they made us feel like family. What is even cooler was that we not only were backup singers but they would let us do solos. They would go and perform in different high schools and churches. They wanted to show kids that being saved does not mean being boring; you could dance and be funky too. Apart from Hip Hope she also got the chance to do background vocals for Atemi and Sarah Mitaro.
She has been involved in various projects such as Out of Africa- the Magic of Kenya, a musical theatre show that toured in Europe in 2012 and the Master Peace International Concert Amsterdam 2014 as a featured artist. Mayonde is also an actress and has a passion for the guitar but mostly uses it for songwriting rather than stage performances. She is famous for the hit song “Isikuti Love”.
Mayonde has also been involved in various projects nationally and internationally. For example, she was a featured artist in the Peace International Concert Amsterdam 2014. Also, she took part in a musical theatre show, Out of Africa- Magic Kenya, that toured Europe in 2012. Ms. Masya is also an actress. She is passionate about the guitar – she uses it in songwriting but not during stage performances.
“Mayonde commonly known songs are Isikuti love and Paradise.”
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Rising Stars from Coke Studio Show
Updated: 07/03/2019
Two skilled youthful female artists have risen as amazing new voices on the music scene in the wake of giving support vocals to a portion of Africa’s top contemporary craftsmen.
Both Mayonde and Trina Mungai earned their huge profession breaks while singing on two periods of the well known Coke Studio TV show and they have now discharged their first single together that exhibits their exceptional vocals joined by a striking video.
“A year ago, I continued telling a companion ‘I would prefer not to return to Coke Studio’ since I sense that its opportunity to make the subsequent stage,” says Trina. Fortuitously, it was at about a similar time that she got a call from her companion and individual artist, Kagwe Mungai, who acquainted her with her present mark Taurus Music.
“We were always making music with the best groups in Africa so it felt like school and the opportunity arrived when I expected to incorporate all that I had learned,” says vocalist, lyricist, and writer Mayonde.
After two seasons on Coke Studio, she felt that she has outgrown the show.
Their fantasies about teaming up on their very own venture which began when they were both reinforcement artists on Coke Studio, has happened with the arrival of their single called “Shika.”
“The music video we did is attractive without being trashy. It is the sauciest, most sure joint effort of Kenyan female specialists,” says Mayonde.
During Coke Studio, the two performers gave foundation vocals to among others American R & B star, Neyo, Vanessa Mdee and Diamond Platnumz from Tanzania, Nigeria’s Mr. Flavor and Kenya’s Victoria Kimani.
“At the point when you are a reinforcement vocalist, you can include your very own smidgen season yet its for the most part about supporting the fundamental artist however as an independent craftsman you have inventive command over the item,” says Trina.
With that experience as foundation vocalists, Mayonde and Trina now welcome the duty regarding their individual brands. That obligation reaches out to promoting and situating yourself as a craftsman. Trina Mungai is a vocalist, lyricist and design blogger who has been singing since the age of 15. Before being tapped for Coke Studio, she routinely gave foundation vocalist to a large group of top acts including Eric Wainaina, Atemi, Gloria Muliro, And Daddy Owen.
She additionally visited crosswise over significant towns in Kenya during the Safaricom Live Tour performing with numerous craftsmen incorporating P-Unit with whom she recorded a melody.
Mayonde started her vocation as a gospel craftsman and ‘wandered out to locate her very own sound sooner or later’ by first posting “Diana Nduba Live” an undertaking of 7 tunes on her SoundCloud page in 2012.
She was a piece of the cast of a melodic performance center gathering “Out of Africa the Magic of Kenya” which visited Europe for a quarter of a year advancing Kenya as a social center in 2012
Her first collection “Enchantment In the Air” was created during her first season on Coke Studio through the help of companions in the music business. “I didn’t have a ton of cash to go to huge studios so I contacted companions with generation abilities and I resembled ‘would we be able to try and create this music in your room'”
Her 2018 EP “Undertaking Purple” came after the second period of the Coke Studio and has gotten great surveys with loads of radio airplay and internet spilling of the melody “Nairobi”: “I truly love my city thus I sang about it through the tune,” she says.
The experience of her initial two releases has instructed her to esteem her adaptability as a craftsman. “I can make tunes that are profound and those that are pop-arranged and they all have a spot. There is an opportunity to be significant and some other time to be joyful and simply move.” Meanwhile, Trina, who additionally plays the low register guitar says her test is in attempting to compose the more agreeable sort of music: “I realize I compose from a profound point of view however I likewise need to compose the basic melodies, the promotion tunes.”
The two craftsmen follow their persuasions to neo-soul artists like Jill Scott, Erykah Badu, and Corrine Bailey Rae. Trina is concentrating on more joint efforts this year to build up her moderately youthful profession while Mayonde’s need is on advancing her “Undertaking Purple” with plans to discharge another single in the months ahead.
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