Mercy Myra

Quality 0.50 · 1 view · Updated 2 months ago

title: "Mercy Myra" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["kenyan-musicians", "kisima-music-award-winners", "living-people", "year-of-birth-missing-(living-people)", "place-of-birth-missing-(living-people)", "kenyan-women-musicians"] topic_path: "arts" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercy_Myra" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

Mercy Myra Grundberg, better known as Mercy Myra, is an R&B musician from Kenya.

Biography

In 1996, she joined the Calabash Band but left the following year to join the R&B group Destinee. In 1997, she joined a band called Black Ice. She later went solo and released her first single "Sitaki" (featuring K-South) in the end of 1998, produced by Samawati Studios.

She has performed in various concerts abroad, including the 2004 Zanzibar International Film Festival, and Festival Mundial in Tilburg, the Netherlands in 2002 and 2003.

Mercy Myra was part of the Divas of The Nile supergroup, that featured four Kenyan female musicians. The others were Suzzana Owiyo, Achieng Abura, and Princess Jully. The group performed at the Festival Mundial in 2007.

She moved to the United States in 2005, and subsequently faded from the limelight. However, in 2009, she won the Best Female Artiste category at the Msanii Awards, honouring US-based Kenyan musicians.

She was married to Malimo Chahonyo Andega, an aspiring Kenyan hip hop musician using the stage name Attitude. Their marriage ended in divorce in December 2015.

Mercy Myra returned to the music scene in 2016 after signing a new deal with Atlanta-based label, Nu Royal Records, where she planned to collaborate with Grammy Award winning producer, Herman Little to create a "new" sound.

Discography

Albums:

  • TABA SAMU (2001)
  • NYISRI MALONG'O (2003) Singles:
  • MALO featuring Khaligraph Jones (2017)
  • FEELS LIKE LOVE featuring VicMass Luo Dollar (2017)
  • BACK HOME (2014)
  • AFRIKAN TANGO (2012) Featured on:
  • Rhythm Jets – VELOCITY (2015)

Awards

Nominated:

References

References

  1. 1-74059-743-5
  2. True Blaq Entertainment: [http://www.trueblaq.com/artist.0.15.html Featured Artist - Mercy Myra] {{webarchive. link. (2011-07-17)
  3. Fly Global Music, September 29, 2004: [http://www.flyglobalmusic.com/fly/archives/africamiddle_east_city_guidesevents/festival_of_the.html Festival of the Dhow Countries, Zanzibar]
  4. Sarakasi Trust: [https://web.archive.org/web/20080612213506/http://www.sarakasi.org/site/sarakasi/annual_report Annual Report 2007]
  5. The Standard, March 28, 2009: [http://allafrica.com/stories/200803280528.html The International Connection]
  6. Eafricainfocus.com, July 10, 2009: {{usurped
  7. The Standard, January 29, 2010: [http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/mag/InsidePage.php?id=2000001912&cid=123& Rapper Attitude back with Attitude]
  8. [http://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2015/12/04/mercy-myra-signs-final-divorce-papers_c1253721 The Star, Dec 4, 2015]
  9. [https://www.prlog.org/12550572-kenyas-leading-female-artist-finds-new-home.html PR Log, April 16, 2016]
  10. 9966983600
  11. [https://web.archive.org/web/20040302070738/http://www.koraawards.co.za/english/musicawards_finalists_res03.asp?Category_en=Best%20Artist%20-%20East%20Africa Kora Awards Nominees 2003]

::callout[type=info title="Wikipedia Source"] This article was imported from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the article history page. ::

kenyan-musicianskisima-music-award-winnersliving-peopleyear-of-birth-missing-(living-people)place-of-birth-missing-(living-people)kenyan-women-musicians