Performance
Sampa the Great
Zambia • b. 1993-08-09
Sampa the Great is credited on 29 releases across 21 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 2017–2024 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
29
Pressings credited
21
Albums
2
Decades active
52
In collections
Biography
Sampa Tembo (born August 9, 1993), known professionally as Sampa the Great, is a Zambian singer, rapper, and songwriter. Between 2014 and 2020, she was based in Australia. Her debut solo album, The Return (September 2019), peaked at No. 12 on the ARIA Albums Chart. At the 2019 ARIA Music Awards she won Best Hip Hop Release for her second single, "Final Form". In the following year she won the same category for The Return, as well as Best Female Artist and Best Independent Release. In March 2020 Sampa became the first artist to win the Australian Music Prize twice: for Birds and the Bee9 (November 2017) and The Return. The artist was based back in Zambia from late 2020, where she issued her second studio album, As Above, So Below (September 2022).
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Credited work
29 releases · 21 albums · active 2017–2024
- Performance · 35
Studios: DB Studios, Lusaka
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Jonti
- Ecca Vandal
- Blinky Bill
- Jungle Brown (2)
- Juju Rogers
- Quakers
- Tony Allen
- Angelique Kidjo
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