Mamadee

Mamadee
Mamadee June 2012 (Photo by Bénédicte Bauer)
Background information
Birth name	Mamadee Wappler
Born	1979 (age 37–38) Dresden, Free State of Saxony
Genres	reggae, gospel, soul
Occupation(s)	Singer, songwriter
Years active	2000–present
Labels	Born Free Records LLC
Associated acts	Gentleman, Sisters Keepers
Website	http://www.mamadee.de/

Mamadee (born 1979 as Mamadie Wappler in Dresden, Germany) is a German Reggae singer and songwriter.

Mamadee grew up with her parents, two sisters, and her grandparents in the small village Altrottmannsdorf near Zwickau as the youngest daughter of a father from Sierra Leone and a German mother. When she was five years old, she started to learn to play piano. In 1999, she moved to her sister in Cologne to become a singer.

Her first engagement in cologne was as background singer for Pauls Club, a band which specialized in jazz and soul classics. After approaching the movement/band Brothers Keepers with her first own song Farbgesetz Mamadee, she became a member of their female version Sisters Keepers in 2000. Later she belonged to the management board of Sisters e.V.

Since his 2002 concert tour through Germany, she has accompanied Gentleman as a background singer until 2012. Her song Good Days, which she wrote and performed with the American singer Tamika, appears also on the album Gentleman & The Far East Band Live. She also contributed to several albums of other artists like Mellow Mark and Seeed.

Mamadee sings not exclusively reggae but also jazz, gospel and soul music. In 2005 her first own EP Lass los was released which contained nine tracks (besides six versions of the title song also Give Something an exclusively for Mamadee composed song by the Jamaican singer-songwriter Jack Radics, Hör nicht auf written by Mamadee herself and Trust In You produced by Gentleman). It was published by the label Bushhouse Records, which was founded by Gentleman and his manager Stephan Schulmeister in 2005. Lass los reached position 79 in the German charts. She also worked with Seeed and Andrew Tosh as background singer.