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I so wish I could be in Brooklyn right now to witness this moment, Seydou Keïta: A Tactile Lens, open at the @brooklynmuseum. 🧡

Being part of this exhibition through sound has been one of the most meaningful creative honors of my journey. Seydou Keïta’s portraits have long felt like sonic memories to me, images that hum, breathe, and remember. Creating a mix alongside @nilerodgers for this show became a way to let those memories move again through rhythm, voice, and vibration.

Thank you deeply to curators Catherine E. McKinley and Imani Williford for bringing this vision to life, and to Nile for the collaborative opportunity and for opening a space where my sonic creativity could meet Keïta’s timeless lens.

Though I can’t travel to the United States to experience the exhibition in person, my heart is there in every frame, every rhythm, every trace of dignity and love that Seydou’s sitters continue to radiate.

🖤 Seydou Keïta: A Tactile Lens
📍Brooklyn Museum
🎧 Soundtrack by Nile Rodgers & Chmba Chilemba

#SeydouKeïta #BrooklynMuseum #NileRodgers #Chmba #AfroSonicMotherhood #AfricanCreativity #PhotographyAndSound #ArtAcrossTime taken in Lilongwe, Malawi by @chmba

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a year ago

🇸🇪 Stockholm… would it be Stockholm Syndrome to live in a city for a few sunny days, fall in love with its all, dream to stay… knowing full well the winter that dawns soon-ish?
But precious precious times witnessing, @nilerodgers honored as @polarmusicprize 2024 Laureate… a precious time meeting @avicii ‘s dad Klas Bergling and his dedication to mental health with @timberglingfoundation …
Precious finally meeting in person @wearefamilyfdtn Frontliner @johanna_alazar and her incredible work with Finjal…
Precious to be called by music to a city that means so much to me musically thanks to @littledragonflicks , @avicii , @abba & dear friend @johan.hugo.music & more 💙💛 taken in Stockholm, Sweden by @chmba

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2 years ago

🍯Finally have you at home @missionmagazine thank you thank you for this beautiful piece on my journey, Youth To The Front Fund and @wearefamilyfdtn , our community, music, music, music and so much more 🍯

📸: @acmera7

#missionmag #Malawi #WeAreFamily taken in Lilongwe, Malawi by @chmba

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2 years ago

🐄 Can’t decide which was harder to coordinate: the bikes or the cows?… almost two weeks of Kaya out everywhere🐄

Listen via my bio👆🏾
Or: https://chmba.lnk.to/kaya  Full vid on YouTube.

🎙️: @chmba
🪘🎹🎸: @chmba
💃🏾🕺🏿🕴🏽: @dance_with_busie @dtk.is @souvie_banda
🎥 Direction: @chmba @tayamikaa & @chifee
🎥🎥 Production: @tayamikaa @chifee
🎞️ Filming: @ac.mera & Gus
👗Styling: @chmba
⚙️ Master: Micah Smith taken in Salima, Malawi by @chmba

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6 days ago

🐄 moments from shooting Kaya that’s now out everywhere, thank you for all the love you’ve shown our art 🐄
Link in my bio 👆🏾
And right here: https://chmba.lnk.to/kaya
📸: @ac.mera
🎙️: @chmba
🪘🎹🎸: @chmba
💃🏾🕺🏿🕴🏽: @dtk.is @souvie_banda
@dance_with_busie
🎥 Direction: @chmba @tayamikaa & @chifee
🎥🎥 Production: @tayamikaa @chifee
🎞️ Filming: @ac.mera
🎨 Post Production: @chmba
👗Styling: @chmba
⚙️ Master: Micah Smith taken in Salima, Malawi by @chmba

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10 days ago

🐄 Kaya 🐄 is here… finally got a moment to introduce this soft gem shot during cow feed rush hour in Salima 🇲🇼. We had fun and they 🐄 got an extra hour to eat.

Link in my bio👆🏾

🎙️: @chmba
🪘🎹🎸: @chmba
💃🏾🕺🏿🕴🏽: @dtk.is @souvie_banda
@dance_with_busie
🎥 Direction: @chmba @tayamikaa & @chifee
🎥🎥 Production: @tayamikaa @chifee
🎞️ Filming: @ac.mera
👗Styling: @chmba
⚙️ Master: Micah Smith

#Malawi #NewMusic #AfroIndie taken in Salima, Malawi by @chmba

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12 days ago

Had the great privilege of visiting @kusewera today!! ❤️

Such a beautiful space where children and youth are given the tools, community and freedom to discover what’s possible for themselves… through education, sports, health, creativity and mentorship, and soooo much more ❤️
Shout out to @karenosborn22 and the team for this beautiful, magnificent vision and space that’s breathing life into so many dreams. I’m absolutely in awe of what you have created and continue to build. So much love lives here. ❤️

ALSO SO Great to see mini @temwa556 and the sports programs you’re breathing into here ❤️🇲🇼 taken in Lilongwe, Malawi by @chmba

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2 months ago

🥁A special feeling to be part of this conversation with @rollingstoneafrica alongside visionaries & inspirations @bunxapa @kylewatsonmusic and other artists shaping African electronic music.
““Most imagine the Afro-electronic music I make as something of the future, but for me it is also a way of carrying my memories, our tradition, and identity into the new spaces I encounter. Malawi isn’t simply where I was born. It’s shaped the sound of my childhood; it is how I hear rhythm and move to it and now how I approach creating music,” Chmba said.

That idea of memory is important. Electronic music is often imagined as futuristic and a sound that appears to have no connection to the past. But for Chmba, it provides another way of carrying history forward.

The future doesn’t have to mean abandoning the past. It can mean finding new ways to express it.

“I’ve never seen my culture as something that limits me. I find it rather as a foundation, my core, my family, my roots springing out to take surface. Making music and being part of my community have always gone hand in hand for me. They both come from the same place of wanting to serve and add to my community, wanting people to feel seen, and be connected. My culture isn’t something I reference. It’s the foundation I create from,” the singer shared.“” 🥁

📸My photo by @ac.mera taken in Lilongwe, Malawi by @chmba

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2 months ago

🍯Let’s go to the land of milk and honey. 🍯☀️

UCHI with @tunosmyton drops next Friday, July 17.

A new era of music, so thrilled to start sharing what I’ve been building.

Pre-save now via link in bio 🤍

🎙️🎙️: @tunosmyton
🪘🎹🎸: @chmba
🎥 Direction: @chmba & @chifee
🎞️ Filming: @ac.mera
⚙️: @MixedbyPrichA

#NewMusic #uchi #malawi #afrohouse #musicdiscoverydaily by @chmba

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3 months ago

🎛️A new chapter begins. ✨

Over the past few months I’ve been rebuilding, expanding my sound, experimenting, dreaming even more.

I’m thrilled to share that I’m joining the Roland artist family as I step into this next season of creating.

Thank you @rolandglobal for believing in the vision. Having new tools to experiment with, perform on, and push my ideas further is a massive gift 🧡

So we begin…

#ad #Roland #RolandArtist #MusicProducer #Malawi taken in Lilongwe, Malawi by @chmba

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3 months ago

♥️One year of Dream, Feel & BadGal
Thank you for every stream, dance, message and moment. These songs have travelled far, and I’m so grateful they’ve found a home with you.

Here’s to the next chapter. ♥️

Thank you! @tayamikaa @_leonorah_cooke_265 @souvie_banda @ac.mera @chifee taken in Lilongwe, Malawi by @chmba

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4 months ago

🌊Weekend spent in water, creating with beautiful collaborators… thank you for trusting the visions @chifee @ac.mera @sibomw @dance_with_busie @dtk.afro @souvie_banda @tayamikaa , Gift, Salima community leaders that welcomed us and so many of our encounters. Can’t wait to share what we made with the world soon soon… Grateful! 🙏🏾🥹❤️ taken in Salima, Malawi by @chmba

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