User:Mbiya Kabengele

Mbiya Kabengele is from Lumbubashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo( ex Zaire), but he grew up in Brazil in 1975.Father of the couple Yombo Mbiya Pereira Kabengele(boy) and Nzeba Bilonda Pereira Kabengele Mbiya is the fourth of five brothers. He arrived in Brazil in 1980 to live in the northeast of the country ( Rio Grande do Norte). Member of an artistic family, he started to draw at the age of 5, observing his older brothers and animated TV series. When he turned 19, he decided to learn in art schools which lead to an amazing experience with the Walt Disney animation school( HGN produções) where he discovered some secrets about the illusions of animation. A gifted artist, Mbiya is also a musician and quite the comedian. He has worked in marketing for companies like DPTO propaganda e marketing, developing designs for clients like BIC, VOLKSWAGEN,YELOWCON,CNN, MSN others. Able to speak new languages in a single bound, Mbiya has lived on each of the Americas–North, Central, and South–and makes it his business to pick up local drawing skills, too, when he is on the road.