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SHAA’S BIOGRAPHY

SHAA (real name Sarah Kaisi ) is a 27 year old
talented Bongo Flava and Afro Pop artist in
every sense of the word. This daring vibrant
Diva was born and raised in Dar es Salaam,
Tanzania and grew up in a musical family
which includes a brother and sister who are
also musicians themselves.
Early 2004, under the group “WAKILISHA” of
the East Africa Coca Cola Pop Stars, SHAA
who was then known by her birth name Sarah
made her debut into the Tanzania music
scene. With their hit single “Hoi” SHAA and
her fellow group members managed to win
themselves a spot in the East Africa music
industry.
However, in 2005 SHAA left the group and
went to USA to further her studies in another
passion of hers which is Art. It was during her
studying period abroad, under the
management of WAKILISHA’s previous
manager, Daniel Kiondo of Kiondo
Communications Internationa l , that SHAA
started working on
her solo career.
In October 2008 SHAA's solo career finally
kicked off when she landed herself a major
record deal with a prominent record label in
Tanzania, MJ Records . Under MJ Records,
SHAA has managed to record and release
many hits such as ZAMU YANGU (meaning MY
TURN), PAMBAZUKA, a track that also
featured AY, SHOGA (meaning MY FRIEND),
CRAZY and many many more.
With such hits under her belt SHAA earned
her first Tanzania Music Awards
Nominations for best R&B artist in 2008,
Best Female Vocalist and Best Female
Artist in 2010 and Best Female Performer
in 2011 . She also earned herself her very first
MAMA(MTV Base) Awards Nomination in
the Best New Act
Category in 2009 and a Channel O Music
Awards Nomination in the Best East
African Act Category in 2010 and the Best
Afro-Pop Act in 2011 where she went head to
head with acts such as JMartins
and Mr.Flavour from Nigeria.
Although she didn’t manage to grab any of the
awards her hard work finally paid off in late
2011 when her then hit SHOGA won the Best
Afro-Pop song in the MUSEKE Awards
beating out some of Africa’s best such as
D’banj and 2Face Idibia.