Daada is a German-Colombian singer-songwriter raised in Tanzania. She taps into diverse roots to write transcultural, multilingual songs that explore topics such as identity, love and home and are narrated in a blend of English, Spanish, German and Swahili. In 2022, she released her first EP, aired on the UK’s Global Smooth Chill radio as well as Germany’s Radio Eins and interviewed on RBB Fritz.

She was also nominated a top 6 newcomer amongst over a thousand submissions by Amazon Music Breakthrough Germany. Single info – “Kiti” “Kiti” fuses Amapiano with Daada’s trademark multilingual, lyric-driven songwriting. The song is a call for gender equality and an ode to women. It is a reminder that we are powerful, resilient and magical queens and that we should support each-other. The chorus, “tupe kiti mezani”, demands a seat at the table for women in all realms.

Lyrics “Kiti” (English translation in brackets)
Eee tupe tupe kiti mezani
(Eng: Give us a seat at the table)
Tupe tupe kiti mezani
Eeo kiti mezani
Tupe tupe kiti mezani
Eee kiti mezani
Eee kiti mezani
Tupe tupe kiti mezani
Eee kiti

Kama unafikiri we ni jua
(Eng: If you think that you’re the sun)
Well if that’s true then we’re the moon
Bosi wa bahari, queens of the party, mother-daughter army
(Eng: Masters of the oceans…)
Bossy and we’re balling, destiny is calling
Ying and yang like mama sang
Tunakuja kama boomerang
(Eng: Here we come like a boomerang)

Eee tupe tupe kiti mezani
Tupe tupe kiti mezani
Eeo kiti mezani
Tupe tupe kiti mezani
Eee kiti mezani
Eee kiti mezani
Tupe tupe kiti mezani
Eee kiti

Equality sio complicated
(Eng: Equality isn’t complicated)
Nataka kumonesha bibi – look we made it
(Eng: I wanna be able to show my grandma – look we made it)
Seated and tabled
Tuanyo kauli
(Eng: We have something to say)
Tunayo kauli – embu sikiliza
(Eng: We have something to say – so listen up)