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Chmba

@chmba

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🇲🇼Producer-DJ-Artist
Founder @tiwalecbo
YTTFF @wearefamilyfdtn
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@chmba is both a musician and an activist. Her kaleidoscope sound collages and curatorial excellence have led to collaborations with Nile Rodgers and Angélique Kidjo. The Malawian DJ-producer discusses her multifaceted career at the intersection of art, social change, and the sound of heritage. Positioned between Tanzania, Mozambique, and Zambia in Southeast Africa, the Republic of Malawi is one of the world’s least-developed nations, mired by a rural economy and landlocked location.   It’s also a place of immense natural beauty and artistry. To musician and activist Chmba, Malawi’s well-being is the cause to which she’s dedicated her life, even as her creative career has taken her across the globe. Chmba’s own musical journey began early, with her parents modelling the curatorial approach. “There were cassettes coming through Malawi from South Africa, the US ,and the UK,” she recalls. “I was the toddler, and my Dad would be like, ‘Go get that cassette with the lady in the blue dress,’ and he meant Donna Summer.” It wasn’t long before she was pulling her own faves together. “I started making mixtapes from a young age. In Malawi, our tech usually takes a little longer. I grew up around cassettes, eventually CDs, and slowly got into digital playlisting.” Her unique approach has attracted some high-profile collaborators, including the endlessly culturally relevant Nile Rodgers. The pair worked on the soundtrack to a photographic retrospective of legendary Malian photographer Seydou Keïta. For someone as grounded as Chmba, the line between her creative career and outreach work has been easy to navigate. “With Nile and Angélique Kidjo, I’ve come across both of them through development work, so it’s been an overlap of worlds, because I’m an activist and an organizer.” Chmba’s drive for social advocacy is impressive, and like music, she came to it early. At age fifteen, she founded Tiwale, “a youth‑led organization based in Malawi that supports women and gender minorities through education, vocational training, and entrepreneurship.” “When we started in 2012, child marriage was still legal in Malawi. We criminalized it in 2018, and a lot of our work has been jus
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Sometimes the biggest thing holding us back isn’t a lack of talent or ideas, it’s waiting for the “right time” to begin. Even one small step today can move you closer to where you want to be. Catch the rest of this conversation between Xylo and Malawian artist, producer, DJ and community organizer Chmba in this week’s podcast episode. Podcast link in bio x
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BTS Snaps from “Kaya” visuals Kaya by @chmba out now!! Shots by @ac.mera #kaya #chmba #music
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How to fit such a transformational summer into 20 pictures? Thankful for the adventures, the growth, the new friendships, the love, the optimism, the cute guys. What a life. Thank you summer — love you forever. ☀️
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Malawi content dump - @kusewera staff reset, meetings, safari fun, Scorchers welcome home, community time, friends, a little filmmaking and more… all with @lexijcoffee joining in. Good times. 🇲🇼
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Dolly… the world will miss you. The music from your soul that united us. The books you put in children’s hands, from birth until they started school, through Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library. And the help you gave to humans throughout your life — some of it we know about, most of it we never will. In 2019 you said yes to being We Are Family Foundation’s Mattie J.T. Stepanek Peacemaker honoree. Not because you needed or even wanted another award, but because young people and their wellbeing were so important to you. You told us it was one you wouldn’t soon forget. Neither will we. That night was a chance for you to shine a light on our global family of young people, and you did exactly that — then you got up on stage with Nile and made us laugh, cry, and dance all night. For those of us who were in the room: we will never forget it. May we all learn from you how to treat our fellow humans. We are family, always. Photos by @shaharazran1
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BIG THANK YOU!! to all who joined us on this 1 year CELEBRATION and also to those who couldn't but have been the backbone to our success so far. Everyone is cherished by the Rivva team and we will continue to be changing the game in Lilongwe with good energy, creativity and passion with a smile as always to make you feel at home with us. Thats 1 year down..many more to come 🚀 .we look forward. Bring on the future 👋🏻🎉😎 #cocktailbar #rivva #malawi #lilongwe #deephouse
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📌 SSS Mozambique 2026: A weekend that we will never live down. From South Africa, to Eswatini, Malawi and Zimbabwe - we made the trip and arrived ready to rock, to love, and to celebrate life. Day in day out! To @ulayo, thank you for sharing your incredible space for this collaboration. To Mozambique, thank you for holding us so tenderly. To our village, thank you for showing up so fiercely. Until next time. 🇲🇿❤️‍🔥 🎥: @its.siibu A special thanks to our OVP team for another epic SSS Mozambique weekend @__.an.d.__ @mamthug @pal__._ @its.siibu @marian_charumbira ✨
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Few artists in Malawi wear as many hats as Chmba 🎩 She's a DJ, a music producer, a songwriter, and a recording artist building her career both behind the scenes and on the mic. Have you listened to "Uchi" yet? 🍯 https://chmba.lnk.to/uchi
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CELEBRATIONS. RIVVA 1 year. Dinner. Grooves. Cocktails. Vibe. YOU'RE INVITED💥🍸👋🏽
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Chmba's "Uchi" has finally dropped on all streaming platforms. 🙌🏽 ▪️The song features Tuno ▪️link: https://chmba.lnk.to/uchi
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New Music Friday is here. 🔥🎧 Hit the link in bio to discover your next favorite track. @daliastasevskaofficial + @bbcsymphonyorchestra @djrscl @johnlundun + @raodikwa @chmba ft. @tunosmyton #NewMusicFriday
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