Samantha Mumba

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Samantha Mumba

Profession: Singer
Place/Date of Birth: Dublin , 18 January 2021

Sam’s Sporty style - 05/11/02
Irish pop tart Samantha Mumba has teamed up with Reebok to create a sporty brand of clothing. The range is a mix of Jennifer Lopez style velor tracksuits and funky little tops. The Quest is in JD Sports stores - call 0800 305 050 for details. Courtesy of Heat Magazine

Soccer streak - 15/10/02
Samantha Mumba has admitted that, in a bid to become famous, she once considered running naked across a football pitch - with her pal Bryan McFadden. "He was a joker and I was a dosser, always having a laugh," she says. Courtesy of Heat Magazine

Mumba mistake - 01/10/02
Samantha Mumba came very close to being accused of shoplifting in Boots after a gag went wrong. Mumba was browsing when a security guard spotted her and radioed his colleague to look out for her. But the other guard misunderstood and stopped her. At least when the shop apologised Sam didn’t make a fuss. Courtesy of Heat Magazine

Job for Judd - 15/08/02
Samantha Mumba has given Cris Judd his first proper job since splitting with J-Lo. He has been hired to play Sam’s love interest in the video for her forthcoming single I’m Right Here. Courtesy of Heat Magazine

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Biography

Born in Dublin in 1983, Mumba began her career grooming early on when her parents enrolled her in that city’s renowned Billy Barry Stage School at the tender age of three.

Educated alongside some of Ireland’s most prominent pop stars (including Brian from the teen singing group Westlife, whom Mumba formed a close friendship with), the soulful-voiced beauty abandoned her education in pursuit of fame at age 17 and never looked back.

A chance encounter with famed talent manager Louis Walsh found Mumba stretching the truth to impress the impresario (she told him that she was an R&B singer from New York who was preparing to record her debut album), and it wasn’t long before Walsh was courting the aspiring pop princess to sign on the dotted line.

Soon gaining positive critical notice for both television appearances and her role in a jazzy 1998 production of the Gilbert and Sullivan opera The Hot Mikado, Mumba recorded Gotta Tell You shortly thereafter and was on her way to international stardom.

Though virtually unknown stateside, all of that would change when she starred opposite Guy Pearce and Jeremy Irons in the cinematic remake of author H.G. Welles’ influential novel The Time Machine.

Samantha is currently making her second album in Sweden, due to be released in the at the end of Summer 2002. When in London, Samantha lives in a luxury apartment in Kensington.
March 2007