Faith Mussa

Faith (CheMuphuwa) was born in August 1985, originally from Ndirande, a very dusty medium-size town located in Blantyre. His passion for music started when he was 4, after being influenced by his parents who were at the time performing as the 'Mussa Family'. Faith started appearing to audiences as young as 5years old performing in venues all over the country. He later started playing hand-made gallon guitars when he was 10 years old teaching himself while imitating tunes from the radio.

In September of 2004, Faith Mussa won for his first music award, chirunga awards, best male singer, while studying Science at one of Malawi's prestigious universities, Chancellor College. Faith later won 3 more top music awards at chancellor college, before winning National award for best Single of 2013 (Desperate), 3 Nyasa awards for best live Act, Best Male artist, Best Single for 2017 (Mdidi), and later best Live and later Best Live Act for 2018.

Faith Mussa is currently Malawi’s first and only “electronic 1 man band” combining traditional African vibes with Modern Sounds. He has also been part of prestigious music festivals all over the world like Glastonbury 2017 - UK, Watana music festival 2018 - Mozambique, Lake of Stars - Malawi & UK, Sauti za Busara 2019 - Zanzibar and many others.

The artist has worked with UNICEF, PLAN International, UNFPA, UNITED PURPOSE (formerly concern Universal) , OXFAM and is currently an ambassador for World Vision Malawi in the campaign against Child marriages.

Faith Mussa's latest album MDIDI is currently available on all leading online platforms