Shiko manawatu biography of christopher
BORN in , at Wellington where his formative years were spent and where he later attended the Technical College Art School....
Shiko Mawatu's album, Kimbanda Nzila is the Oustanding World Music album nominee for the 39th NAACP Image Awards.
He is best-known for his explorations of Chinese history, and for his writings on the Chinese diaspora.
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
