Ya Kid K   (Belgium)

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Latest Ya Kid K news

10/03/2019 : Next summer, Technotronic members Ya Kid K and MC Eric will release a collaboration entitled I Like To

05/06/2017 : Ya Kid K recorded raps in French for a Tyree Drums song entitled Devancer. (Thanks to Tavi Meran)

21/09/2016 : Ya Kid K released a new single entitled Keep Your Hands (Thanks to Krasi)

28/12/2014 : New from Ya Kid K, single Auto-Erotic, a collaboration with We3Kings, and an album, Stalled Constructions.

01/08/2014 : Ya Kid K recently released a new song entitled Can't Suffer Love. It was originally written by Manuela Kamosi herself in 1996, composed by Manuela Kamosi, Walter Brandt and Bill Brandt.

02/12/2011 : Ya Kid K released last August a new solo digital single entitled Do U C Me Standing (Thanks to Tavi Meran)

16/03/2009 : Syndicate of Law featured Ya kid K, former Technotronic rapper, on their new single Citizen Of The Planet. Discover it here. (thanks to eurodance blog)

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Ya Kid K albums

	One World Nation	5th Oct 1992	BUY X
	Stalled Constructions	9th Dec 2014	BUY X

Ya Kid K singles

	Awesome (You Are My Hero)	26th Mar 1991	BUY X
	Let This Housebeat Drop	1992	BUY X
	That Man	1993	BUY X
	Rock My World	21st Sep 1998	BUY X
	Take A Trip	2002	BUY X
	Do U C Me Standing	26th Aug 2011	BUY X
	Tell Me (with We 3 Kings)	26th Aug 2011	BUY X
	Can't Suffer Love	8th Jun 2014	BUY X
	Auto-Erotic (with We 3 Kings)	4th Dec 2014	BUY X
	Perhaps It Wasn't Love	8th Dec 2014	BUY X
	Keep Your Hands	9th Aug 2016	BUY X

Featurings and collaborations

	Hi Tek 3 - Spin That Wheel	1989	BUY X
	Technotronic - Pump Up The Jam (album)	1989	BUY X
	Technotronic - Pump Up The Jam	28th Nov 1989	BUY X
	Technotronic - Get Up (Before The Night Is Over)	Jan 1990	BUY X
	Technotronic - Move This	19th Sep 1990	BUY X
	MC Eric - Our House	1991	BUY X
	Technotronic - Rocking Over The Beat	Jan 1991	BUY X
	Technotronic - Hey Yoh, Here We Go	30th Nov 1993	BUY X
	Technotronic - One + One	6th Mar 1994	BUY X
	Technotronic - Recall (album)	1995	BUY X
	Technotronic - Recall	12th Apr 1995	BUY X
	Robert Clivilles - Shake That Body	1996	BUY X
	Robert Clivilles - Make That Money	1996	BUY X
	Technotronic - The Mariachi	26th Jun 2000	BUY X
	DAAU - Life Transmission	2001	BUY X
	Syndicate Of L.A.W. - Citizen Of The Planet	2008	BUY X
	Syndicate Of L.A.W. - Ouh Ouh	30th Apr 2010	BUY X
	Matt Tolfrey - Turn You Out	30th Jul 2012	BUY X
	Dubvictor - Think Is Right	4th Feb 2013	BUY X
	Maviic - Moja Mbili Tatu	17th Aug 2014	BUY X

Songwriting

Technotronic - Pump Up The Jam

28th Nov 1989

BUY X

Ya Kid K biography

Manuela Barbara Kamosi Moasco Djogi was born January 26th 1973 in Democratic Republic of the Congo as it was still called Zaire. Yǎ is a Lingala diminutive word meaning "older sibling", so Ya Kid Kamosi simply means "the older Kamosi child". Her dad was the CEO of the Zaire national airline.

She had moved to Belgium when she was 11 years old, then Chicago, Illinois, USA, where she was introduced to rap and deep house music. Her sister, Karoline 'Leki' Kamosi, is an R&B singer. On her return to Belgium she became member of the rap group Fresh Beat Productions then teamed up with Jo Bogaert. She became the female rapper of his group Technotronic and can be heard on many of their greatest hits. She contributed to the first hit Pump Up The Jam (though her contribution was uncredited). She then appeared alongside professional and personal partner MC Eric on the breakthrough hit, This Beat Is Technotronic, which is considered by many to be the first hip house record. They teamed up again with Technotronic for Get Up! (Before The Night Is Over), which was another major international hit.

Afterwards Manuela was featured by the project Hi Tek in 1990 for the single Spin That Wheel. She also released some singles solo such as the track Awesome (for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II soundtrack) under SBK Records, and one album entitled One World Nation. The birth of a child then interrupted her plans. Her projected solo career seems to have petered out since that time.

Ya Kid K's Come Back Home was used as the music on the credit trailer of the film The Night We Never Met (1993, Matthew Broderick).

She came back with Technotronic for the release of the album Recall in 1995, with Black Diamond and Daisy Dee . Her voice appeared on the singles Move It To The Rhythm and Recall.

In 1996 Ya Kid K took part to several tracks on the solo album Robi Rob's Clubworld that Robert Clivilles' (one of the C of C+C Music Factory) released. Among them : Shake That Body and Make That Money.

1997 : Ya Kid K provided vocals for the 2 Skinnee J's cover of Pump Up the Jam entitled, BBQ. She sang "Pump up the gas grill," as the chorus.

In 2001, she released a track called Take A Trip (Semini Records). She also did a guest rap on Life Transmission, the 2001 album from Belgian avant-rockers DAAU.

In October 2005, Ya Kid K made a guest appearance on Public Warning the debut album of Lady Sovereign. Ya Kid K appears on the track Those Were the Days and can be clearly heard growling at the opening of the song.

2002, she released single Take A Trip on Semini Records.

2009 : Syndicate of Law featured Ya Kid K on their new single Citizen Of The Planet

2011 : she released in August a new solo digital single entitled Do U C Me Standing. She was also featured on Baronic Arts, Comes Love.

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Ya Kid K biography was last updated Sat, December 27th 2014

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