Career
Mwangi writes a lot of her music about the situation in her home country Kenya, also about discrimination both Stella and her family had to go through after moving to Norway in 1991. Her work has been used in films such as American Pie Presents: The Naked Mile and Save the Last Dance 2, and also in television-series such as Computer Society of India: New York and Scrubs. She started to practice playing music when she was just eight years old.
She also plays the piano.
Mwangi represented Norway at The in Düsseldorf, Germany, one year after her country hosted the event, and was eliminated in the first semi-final. Mwangi has had hits in Kenya, Senegal, and Gambia.
Mwangi"s father was killed in a hit-and-run accident in February 2012. Stella was born in Murang"a in Central Province of Kenya in 1986 and spent her first 5 years there before her family moved to a small village in Norway in 1991.
She went to school there and learned to speak Norwegian.
He used cultural music and poetry to teach them the languages and this inspired Stella"s music and her connection to the Kenyan culture. In 2011, Mwangi participated in the Norwegian national selection Melodi Grand Prix 2011 to represent Norway in the, which was held in Düsseldorf, Germany. On 10 May, she represented Norway at the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Haba Haba" but failed to qualify for the Eurovision final, despite being one of the big favourites of the contest.
Stella first topped the official singles chart in Norway in week 6, 2011 with her winning song "Haba Haba".
