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Zamora (artist)

lennox mayanja Zamora (born January 17 1994),popularly known by his stage name Zamora is a Kenyan hip hop afrobeat & spoken word artist based in Nairobi city.Zamora mainly raps in one of his native languages ‘mijikenda’, but being multilingual he also incorporates the use of Swahili and English languages thus reaching a wider audience,and also creating his own unique and original sound in the process.

Zamora grew up in different parts of Kenya and he grew up listening to a lot of different African music,he started listening to hip hop music in the early 2000s and he fell in love with the genre.

at the age of thirteen Zamora discovered that he could rap and it was not until 2012 going by the stage name young leezy, that he did his first song the song eventually led to a mix tape ‘the freedom mix tape’ which he was involved in recorded and mixing most of the songs with no prior sound engineering knowledge,he even featured foreign artists and producers in the mix tape.

three years later (2015) armed with a new name LNX ,Zamora released his debut twelve track mix tape LOLA ,The mix tape got features on reviews on international sites and singles from the mix tape got radio and television air plays,this got the attention of his peers both locally and across the continent ,due to various factors he changed his stage name and took up his surname Zamora.

in the same year Zamora was a finalist in the USA based TALANTA AWARD”S talent search Kenya edition and through that he had an opportunity to feature on a single with established Kenyan artists ,Bern,benachi,faith muturi & Esther Liana among others

unlike most rappers Zamora always has a positive message in his lyrics he does music about his faith, his life experiences and the African society,going by the tag line third world artist with a first class vision he seeks to encourage people, make his society a better place and also tell the African story.

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