Yo Maps Biography, Music Career, Awards, Relationships and Net worth
5 March 2021
[Photo Credit:Zikozed]
By Kinyua Mwangi
How Old and Where is Yo Maps from?
Artist as Singer/Songwriter: Yo Maps
Name: Elton Mulenga
Date of Birth: November 29, 1994
Net worth: Currently Unknown
Yo Maps was born 27 years ago in Kasama, Zambia but later relocated to Lusaka where he grew up. He would later relocate to Kabwe after attaining the age of 18 years.
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How did Yo Maps begin his music career?
Yo Map’s passion for music began at an early age when he was a teenager schooling at Chibombo High School. While in school around 2008, he was in the choir and did more gospel songs than secular.
At home, his mother would not buy his idea to venture into music thereby grounding him to doing it while he was in school. This, however, did not dampen his spirit. He continued doing his thing while in school and luckily, his father Muyunda Mundia is the one who got him on the springboard to musical success. Mundia was a gospel singer and dedicated catholic.
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Yo Maps dedicated his soul to music and learnt as much as he would from 2008. As fate would have it, he bumped into Slapdee who he learnt a thing or two from and in 2011, he released his first album. People now knew his name because the music industry in Zambia was going through a trying time with the beefing of Slapdee and Macky2 whose music careers started almost at the same time.
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He made a comeback to Lusaka from Chingola where he had been and released “Ndimupondo”. The takeaway hits from this album were “I Am The President” and “Number 1 Fan”. They got Zambia into a frenzy given his young age at the time and great talent. Digital X Label released Yo Map’s first album
In 2018, he released “Finally” a song that fully set him on stage in the Zambian music industry. Even Macky 2 acknowledged that this was the beginning of a great Yo Maps. He went on to collaborate with big names among them Macky 2, Slapdee, Daev among others.
In 2020, his song “So Chabe” was one of his biggest songs of the year. In February 2021, he released “Pick It Up” featuring Mic Burner and the song claimed a top position in the charts within a month.
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Signings and Labels
- Alpha Entertainment
- Digital X Label
- K-Ato Entertainment
Yo Maps Awards and Nomination
- Kwacha Music Awards
- Ngoma Awards
Questions you asked…
- Is Yo Maps still seeing his ex-girlfriend? Yo Maps has said that he is not seeing his ex-girlfriend Mwizukanji although they have a beautiful daughter together the reason being she had two other kids when they met and that she hid it from her.
- Is he a millionaire now? His exact net worth remains unknown but he is definitely doing well. With his rates ranging from K20,000 to K40,000, he is definitely swimming in the millionaires club.
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