South African-based Zimbabwean artist, Sha Sha, born Charmaine Shamiso Mapambiro features on Eddie Murphy’s “Coming To America” soundtrack album.
The movie will be premiered on the 5th of March and the Amapiano queen is joined by South Africa’s Tellaman and Nigeria’s Oxlade.
In 2020, Sha Sha wrote her own piece of history, by becoming the first local artiste to win a BET award.
She won the 2020 BET Viewer’s Choice: Best New International Act award at a ceremony held virtually in Los Angeles in July.
The BET Awards honour and celebrates Black excellence in entertainment and sport are organised by Black Entertainment Television, a prominent television network targeting African American audiences in the United States.
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Sha Sha, real name Charmaine “Sha-sha” Mapimbiro, is a Zimbabwean born singer based in South Africa.
Although Mutare is her home town, she spent some of her life in Bulawayo and South Africa because of the separation of her family. This helped her proficiency in isiZulu.
Career
Initially, Sha Sha wanted to be a nurse, but she found her true calling after encouragement from peers.
In 2013 she sent recordings of her singing covers to a radio station. The radio play led to her working with Audius Mtawarira, who became her mentor and helped her break into the South African music scene. While she was working towards my goal of moving to South Africa, she performed at the Harare International Festival of the Arts and got to meet her musical idol, Oliver Mtukudzi.
Her family was sceptical of her desire to move to Johannesburg and tried to persuade her to find gigs around Harare and Bulawayo instead.
In 2014, she let go of her plan to study nursing and set out for Jozi where she performed at restaurants and sang ballads at weddings. She befriended Melusi Mhlanga, a cab driver who drove her to her gigs.
Narrating how she met South African musician and record producer DJ Maphorisa she said:
I would do a lot of gigs at night and I had a cab driver and one day he asked me why I was always moving around at night and I told him it’s because I sing. Turns out he also drove DJ Maphorisa now and then so he introduced me to him. I sang for him and he liked my sound.
Discography: She released her debut eight-track EP, Blossom at the end of 2019.
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