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Rumbie Praise

Occupation: Make-up Artist/ entrepreneur

Born: 12 February 1991

Place of Birth: Harare

Residence: USA

Nationality: Zimbabwean

Rumbidzai Praise Magoga, popularly known as Rumbie Praise is a 22-year old Zimbabwean professional/celebrity make-up artist (MUA), singer and model based in Dallas in the USA. The Harare-born make-up artist and entrepreneur moved to the USA in 2017 where she established herself in the beauty industry.

Personal life

Rumbie Praise was born in Harare on 12 February 1999 and raised by her parents Edwin and Locardia Magoga. Rumbie Praise started singing from her school days at Eaglesvale Prep School all the way through Senior School. She recorded her first song at 11 when her father took her to the studio where she did a cover of Demi Lovato's "Our Time Is Here". She competed in the National Institute of Allied Arts Zimbabwe (NIAA) every year and also plays the marimba. She has been associated with a Gospel group called “CLOSER” that is based in Dallas Texas, and featured on a song called “Shoko Renyu”, though she is no longer in the group and currently working on her solo career.

Breakthrough

Rumbie Praise professionally took up make-up artistry in 2019. Rumbie's breakthrough into the mainstream came when her work was discovered by multi-award winning and Grammy nominated singer Jekalyn Carr who asked her to join her glam team. This further opened doors for her and she became Carr's official make up artist.

Today,Rumbie Praise has worked with various notable celebrities in the United States such as Celebrity Stylist J Bolin, Playboy model Chastity Simone, multi-Grammy award-winner Le'Andria Johnson, rapper Young Dolph, Strong Fitness Magazine, Women of More Magazine and Nicci Robinson, among others.

Recently Rumbie Praise went to the Stellar Awards, where she was styling. The Stellars are the first of the Big Two major gospel music awards held annually in the world. Her work has also seen her garnering a lot of acclaim including coverage on Fox News among others.

She also runs her enterprise called Rumbie Praise Cosmetics and is inspired by Hollywood based entrepreneurs Jacque Mgido and Kylie Jenner, in her work in the industry. She is currently working on her debut solo project in the music industry.