Born Caleb Bright Kawamba on December 7, Angwazi is a Malawian rapper, record producer and entrepreneur. He owns New Wave Concepts, a think-tank & intellectual property company.
He grew up in a musical family, his father was a singer in the mid 70s to early 80s and his mother is a songwriter, hence he's had music in his blood. But he got attached to what he describes as "fast-talking kind of music" once he heard an LL Cool J track "I need love" and "Walk this way" by RUN DMC when he was about 9. He started practicing and was writing raps in the middle of a Maths book and any paper he could get his hands on, which usually got him slapped or pinched.
Angwazi has been on the hip-hop scene since early 2000's; he recorded material in Malawi & USA between 2006 to 2009 in a period he considered “a development stage”. In 2012, he started working on his first ever mixtape titled “Angwazi The Mixtape” with two of Lilongwe's renowned hip-hop producers Rebel Musiq & Dizzo. The mixtape was released in 2013.
"Passion never dies and I have a pretty clear picture of where I want to take this to. I would have come out years back, but planning is the most critical part of any mission, so I had to sit back and not rush for fame or recognition.
"My music is all about giving a positive energy. As a person am allergic to negativity and I cut off anything or anybody around me producing negative energy, so when am writing, it comes natural to write feel good music even if am in a bad situation because personally it's just impossible to express myself through putting out negative energy, am always looking for the good even in the bad," he shares his inspirations.