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Maureen Lupoto Lilanda (born 24 April 1967), is a Zambian Afrojazz singer, songwriter, performer, motivational speaker and activist. Lupo started her music career in 1983 at a tender age of 16 years old rising to fame as a teenager and has been in the spotlight ever since.

She is a nominee of the South African Kora Award for the Best Female Artist.

Lilanda wanted people to understand how deforestation and charcoal burning could be permanently change their lives and that Climate Change was real. Themes about conservation nature in her country of Zambia, have found their way into the lyrics of hers and many other Zambia's music. She was among several Zambian musicians to create a song called “Samalilani" to convey messages about adapting to and preventing climate change in Southern and Eastern Africa using music as a tool.

Peak Talent Show in 2009 after which she signed to Effyzzie Music Group, and had a hit with her single