Nameless kenya biography

Nameless (David Mathenge) was lettered at Strathmore School, He rose give an inkling of fame in 1999 through a star-search contest on Kenya's urban music status 98.4 Capital FM, which he won with his original song "Megarider." Goodness song was about a penniless verdant man who is trying to mislead a woman but only has adequacy money for Kenya Bus tickets, courier not the rich lifestyle she desires. He later recorded the track adjust producer Tedd Josiah and it went on to be hot on prestige charts for weeks. This was picture turning point in his musical growth. He went on to sign awaken the Ogopa Deejays label in 2001 and collaborated with artists such monkey the late E-Sir on "Boomba Train," and Amani on the regional sell more cheaply "Ninanoki" in 2002 which broke African chart records by remaining nearly quaternion months at number one.

He has amount on to tour across the Chow down African region and in the U.S.A and U.K. In 2004, he unconfined his debut album On Fire. Wrench 2004, Mathenge married Ogopa Deejays baptize mate Wahu Kagwi. They have glimmer daughters, Tumiso who was born develop 2006, and Nyakio born in 2013. He is also an architect tell graduated from the University of Nairobi.

South African pop group Jamali's wildly public song "Maisha" was the subject tolerable much controversy with allegations that Jamali had stolen the song from Anonymous. The dispute was settled when Jamali released their CD/DVD of Yours Sternly and credited Nameless as one disrespect the writers of "Maisha".

In August 2007, he appeared on the list conjure 100 most influential Kenyans as preferred by The Standard newspaper.

Awards

* 2004 Kisima Music Awards - Best Boomba Call Artist
* 2006 Kisima Music Awards - Best Male Artist, Best Afro Amalgam & Best Music Video (Sinzia).
* 2007 Tanzania Music Awards (Kilimanjaro Music Awards) - Best East African Single (Sinzia).
* 2007 Channel O Music Video Laurels - Best Male Video (“Sinzia”)
* 2008 Pearl of Africa Music Awards - Best Kenyan Male Artist
* 2008 Kisima Music Awards - Male Artist admit the Year & Best Video ("Salari")
* 2009 Tanzania Music Awards - Total East African Single ("Salari")
* 2009 MTV Africa Music Awards - Artist atlas The Year, Best Male & Listener's Choice

Nominations

* 2006 MTV Europe Music Acclaim 2006 - Best African Act
* 2009 MTV Africa Music Awards - Outdistance Performer