For those who might not know who Mbosso is.
Mbosso real name Mbwana Yusuph Kilungi used to be a part of the now separated Tanzanian all-boys music group called Wakubwa na Wanawe but later on changed it to Yamoto Band after their hit single Yamoto.
The group comprised of Aslay, Beka Flavour, Enock Bella, and Mbosso(used to be called Maromboso back then though but changed it after Mkubwa Fela asked him to shorten it) but later on fell out and that’s where each artiste from the group went solo.
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After the fallout, Aslay and Beka Flavour quickly found their footing and relaunch their careers as solo artistes but Mbosso with Enock Bella was nowhere to be seen as if they fell off the surface of the earth.
At that time, we honestly didn’t know what happened to Enock Bella but he came back to the music limelight three months back but for Mbosso thanks to his brief bio-visual at least we know what happened to him.
Mbosso who was born and raised in Kibiti to a mother who is a farmer and a father who is a tout in Kibiti, Tanzania had his fair share of tough life growing up as a kid.
He was born on 3rd October in Kibiti, Rufiji to a mother who is a farmer and a father who is a tout in Kibiti.
Though his parents didn’t have much to offer him as a child, they at least tried to raise him to be a responsible man, they struggled but they managed to take him to school up until he finished his high school education.
Mbosso always wanted to do music and asked his parents to allow him to leave Kibiti and go to Dar Es Salaam to pursue his dream of being a musician so that he can be able to provide for his family in the future, his parents were not convinced just of yet.
He eventually managed to convinced his parents to let him go to Dar es Salaam by being persistent about wanting to pursue music.
When he was finally given permission to go to Dar es Salaam by his parents, his father gave him his shoes while his mother prayed for him so that he can achieve his dream of becoming a great musician, something that he always wanted to be.
When he finally reached Dar es Salaam, he didn’t know a single person in the vast city, and couldn’t even communicate with anyone since he didn’t have any phone to communicate with. He was flat broke, no money, with no one to call out to in the city to help him out.
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Thanks to Mkubwa Fela -who is the owner of Mkubwa na Wanawe records- he found him and scouted him to help build the all boys-band group that came to be known as the Yamoto Bando.
The group had his fair shares of major wins by releasing numerous hits that are fundamental to the music industry today and are favorites to many people across the globe but sadly, the group fell off.
After the group fell off because of irreconcilable differences, it really hit him hard, and this made him quit music(the thing that he loved most in the world) and went back home to continue being a farmer.
Due to scarcity of land his parents owned, and the lack of food to cultivate, he confessed he had to indulge in bad vices like stealing.
Many different artistes wanted to persuade him to leave the farming life, and get back into music but they didn’t manage to convince him but thanks to Wasafi Classic Baby’s(WCB) Rayvanny persuasions, he was swayed to come back to the city to attend Diamond Platnumz’s brother Romy Jones’ wedding.
Mbosso was unsure if the group(Yamoto Band) will regroup and start off from where they stopped or if Wakubwa Fela will take him back but as fate would have it, he was signed under WCB and as it is a requirement in the WCB, every artiste is required to complete an album before he gets exposed and introduced to the world as a WCB artiste. It took him more than five months for him to be acknowledged by WCB.
Because he needed to survive on his own and he didn’t have any income, he started doing petty crimes like stealing from people the little things they have.
On his way to completing his debut album, he met up with a beautiful woman who loved him so much so that she wanted to take him to see her parents and introduce him.
She was actually the muse to the hit song he just released ‘Watakubali’ which has been trending since it was officially released.
Mbosso recently went to perform at a full crowd in Yanga who came solely to see him perform with his signature guitar.
The show was successful which was attended by all of WCB artistes even Diamond Platnumz was in attendance.
Here’s the music video for ‘Watakubali’ and the audio version of the same underneath
