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词条 Mamadee
释义

  1. Family

  2. Music

  3. Film documentation

  4. Social engagement

  5. Discography

  6. References

  7. External links

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|name = Mamadee
|image = Singer Mamadee.jpg
|image_size = 300px
|caption = Mamadee June 2012 (Photo by Bénédicte Bauer)
|background = solo_singer
|birth_name = Mamadie Wappler
|birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1979|9|11}}
|birth_place = Dresden, Free State of Saxony
|origin =
|associated_acts = Gentleman, Sisters Keepers
|genre = reggae, gospel, soul
|occupation = Singer, songwriter
|years_active = 2000–present
|label =
|website =
}}

Mamadee (born 11. September 1979 as Mamadie Wappler[1] in Dresden, Germany) is a German Reggae singer and songwriter.

Family

Mamadee grew up with her parents, two sisters, and her grandparents in the small village Altrottmannsdorf[2] near Zwickau as the youngest daughter of a father from Sierra Leone and a German mother.[3] When she was five years old, she started to learn to play piano. In 1999, she moved to her sister in Cologne to become a singer.[4]

Music

Her first engagement in Cologne was as background singer for Pauls Club, a band which specialized in jazz and soul classics. After approaching the movement/band Brothers Keepers with her first own song Farbgesetz Mamadee, she became a member of their female version Sisters Keepers in 2000.[1][5] Later she belonged to the management board of Sisters e.V.[6]

Since his 2002 concert tour through Germany, she has accompanied Gentleman as a background singer until 2012. Her song Good Days, which she wrote and performed with the American singer Tamika, appears also on the album Gentleman & The Far East Band Live. She also contributed to several albums of other artists like Mellow Mark and Seeed.

Mamadee sings not exclusively reggae but also jazz, gospel and soul music.

In 2005 her first own EP Lass los was released which contained nine tracks (besides six versions of the title song also Give Something an exclusively for Mamadee composed song by the Jamaican singer-songwriter Jack Radics, Hör nicht auf written by Mamadee herself and Trust In You produced by Gentleman). It was published by the label Bushhouse Records, which was founded by Gentleman and his manager Stephan Schulmeister in 2005. Lass los reached position 79 in the German charts.[7] She also worked with Seeed and Andrew Tosh as background singer.

Together with Gentleman she performed "Lass los" at the Bundesvision Song Contest 2005 for the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia where they shared last place in the competition with Sandy Mölling who competed for the state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

In 2013, Mamadee published her first solo album Beautiful Soul which was recorded in Miami and produced by Conrad Glaze, founder and president of the music label Born Free Records.[2]

Film documentation

In 2007, director Sven Halfar produced the documentation Yes I Am in which the lives of Mamadee, Adé Bantu and D-Flame were portrayed. The film shows the career development of Afro-German musical artists and the problems they have encountered due to their skin color.[8][9]

Social engagement

Due to her own experience with discrimination during her teenage years in East Germany Mamadee champions against intolerance and xenophobia. She tried to come to terms with her own history in her song Farbgesetz which was featured in the Yes I Am documentation and did educational work for youths in schools since she joined in 2000 the non-profit association Sisters e.V.[2] In February 2009 Mamadee finished her studies with a BA degree as certified social pedagogue.[10]

Discography

Albums
  • Beautiful Soul (2013)
Single
  • Who I Am (feat. Born Free, Pyton & Hurricane, 2010)
  • Africa Is Calling (feat. Ky-Mani Marley, 2011)
EP
  • Lass Los (2005)
  • Good Days (with Tamika, 2007)
Contributions
  • Turtle Bay Country Club: Kein Leichter Weg (with the songs "Baby" and "Kein leichter Weg")
  • Brothers Keepers: Lightkultur (with the Sisters Keepers' song "Liebe & Verstand", 2001)
  • Mellow Mark: Sturm ("Babies" feat. Mamadee, 2003)
  • Gentleman & The Far East Band: Live (CD, DVD) (Backgroundsängerin; with the song "Good Days", 2003)
  • Seeed: Musik Monks ("What You Deserve Is What You Get" & "Double Soul" feat. Mamadee, 2004)
  • Gentleman - Diversity Live (DVD) (DVD 2: Live concert from the 25th anniversary of Summerjam Festival 2010 with the song "Beautiful Soul", 2011)

References

1. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.welt.de/print-wams/article599450/Mit-Rhytmen-voller-Seele.html|title=Mit Rhytmen voller Seele|publisher=Die Welt|first=Frank|last=Lorentz|date=6 January 2002|accessdate=6 January 2014}}
2. ^{{cite web | url=http://issuu.com/stadtmagazinkompass/docs/01_14 | title=MAMADEE | publisher=Kompass, Das Stadtmagazin für Zwickau, Vogtland und Erzgebirge | date= 2014-01-01 | accessdate=2014-01-03}}
3. ^Mamadee Wappler (in German)
4. ^MAMADEE SOUL ZWISCHEN GENTLEMAN UND SISTERS KEEPERS (in German)
5. ^Mamadee
6. ^Sisters e.V. (in German)
7. ^Swiss Charts
8. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.monstersandcritics.de/artikel/200750/article_47296.php/DVD-Kritik-Yes-I-Am|title=Wer bin ich?|last=Seeberg|first=Vera|date=18 December 2007|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100115042729/http://www.monstersandcritics.de/artikel/200750/article_47296.php/DVD-Kritik-Yes-I-Am|archivedate=15 January 2010|df=}} (in German)
9. ^Yes I Am
10. ^[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt2ZIMh-LWw Video interview Mamadee]

External links

  • {{IMDb name|2485531|Mamadee}}
  • {{Allmusic|class=artist|id=MN0002094353}}
  • [https://www.facebook.com/mamadee.wappler Mamadee] on Facebook
  • [https://www.youtube.com/user/Mamadeemusic YouTube channel]
  • Interview on riddim.de (in German)
  • Yes I Am documentation
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