KEENIATTA

Born in Swaziland, “KEENIATTA” started singing from a very young age. KEENIATTA remembers when she with her sisters would grow listening and imitating singers ranging from Billie Holiday, Aretha Franklyn, Patti Labelle to Tina Turner and Diana Ross. At the age of fifteen she entered S. Africa’s biggest talent show winning a recording contract with RPM which led to five records and signed the beginning of her songwriting career. After recording her last album with RPM, she based herself abroad and spent most of her time in the United States, Europe and Middle East astounding people with her voice and her high impact live performances. In S. Africa she releases the Album “Round and Round”, using the artistic alias “KEENIA” published by Teal Records and distributed by POLYGRAM S.A. - now UNIVERSAL S.A. - and, while the single “Blue light” went 3rd on the charts, the title track “Round and Round” was nominated at the S.A.M.A. (South African Music Awards) for the “Best Contemporary Dance Music Performance”. In Italy, where she mostly lives when not performing around the world, she co-wrote and recorded the song “Everybody Come On” which was chosen as signature track for the TV format “Pop Star” and the Italian female band “Lollypop” did a cover of it, reaching the top ten of the Italian Hit Parade Chart. Very famous is her cover of E. Clapton’s “Change the World” (©CSR-Teal Rec.). She’s working at her new project. She is ready to explode onto the world markets: - KEENIATTA's young, sexy, sassy and has the talent, the voice, the energy and determination to ROCK THE WORLD!!!!!!!! - (read less)

Born in Swaziland, “KEENIATTA” started singing from a very young age. KEENIATTA remembers when she with her sisters would grow listening and imitating singers ranging from Billie Holiday, Aretha Franklyn, Patti Labelle to Tina Turner and Diana Ross. At the age of fifteen she entered S. Africa’s biggest talent show winning a recording contract with RPM which led to five records and signed the beginning of her songwriting career. After recording her last album with RPM, she based herself abroad... (read more)