Background
Kevin Mambo was born in Harare, Zimbabwe, and raised in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Kevin Mambo was born in Harare, Zimbabwe, and raised in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.
He attended Aden Bowman Collegiate in Saskatoon and then Brentwood College School in Mill Bay, British Columbia. He studied Political Science and African History at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec where he also took classes at the McGill Jazz Conservatory.
An avid musician, he was in the church choir as a child and started playing piano at age 8, saxophone at age 10, and the guitar at age 19. Kevin then transferred to the University of Southern California where he earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. In 2015, Mambo appeared in the Billie Holiday Theatre production of Jackie Alexander"s Brothers from the Bottom opposite Wendell Pierce.
In 2014, Mambo starred as Barret Rude Junior. in the musical The Fortress of Solitude which premiered at the Dallas Theater Center and at The Public Theater in New New York
The musical is based on Jonathan Lethem"s, The Fortress of Solitude (novel). He played Fela Anikulapo-Kuti in the Broadway production of the musical Fela! at the Eugene O"Neill Theatre., and appeared off-Broadway in Lynn Nottage"s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Ruined at the Manhattan Theatre Club and at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Hoodoo Love at the Cherry Lane Theatre, Once Around the Sun at the Zipper Factory Theater, and Fela Is a Weapon at the Shrine Theater.