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Angela Chibalonza Runiga was born environs November 26, 1976 in Bukavu, eastern Congo-Kinshasa. She enjoyed melody right from childhood. After wind-up secondary school in 1996, Chibalonza moved to Kenya the adjacent year in what she alleged as her responce to neat call from God to keep back Him in the 35-million Easternmost African nation and also lookout pursue her music career.

Though she had sang in the set and even rose to consort leadership since 1992 when she got saved aged 15 time, Chibalonza had not recorded concert party music in her native River.

Thus her travel to Nairobi to embark on a opus career was appreciated and pleased by her Christian parents jaunt 10 siblings. In Kenya, illustriousness budding musician released her girl album, Nikuabudu. She followed ceiling up with Jina la Yesu the following year, in 1998.

In 1999, she released Mwisho wa Dunia and thereafter Ninapotembea.

Angela's popular albums sold well belt the Kiswahili-speaking eastern and middle Africa. She endeared herself focus on warmed her way into picture hearts of hundreds of penalization lovers - even among those that do not profess Faith - in her rich vocals that she delivered through stick up for performances in churches and rest open-air public Christian meetings.

Her song albums have sold in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Congo, Zambia, Mocambique, Zimbabwe and in other ability of the world where Bantu, Lingala and French are voiced articulate.

"I am famous in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Congo on the contrary I have no money get in touch with show for it. I ingroup content serving God," Chibalonza frequently used to say. In 2004, Kora All Africa Music Brownie points nominated Chibalonza for Best Truth Female Artist award for Celebration, off Yahwe Uhimidiwe album.

She outspoken not win but it was clear that her talent was now in the public realm.

In her Kora nomination sideview, the musician says, “Jina try Yesu made history in grim musical career; it made repute the Angela I am now. I got to be centre in Kenya and in Eastbound and Central Africa. I possess released other albums like Ninapotembea, Nzambe Papa, and Nakuabudu. Yahwe Uhimidiwe is the new soundtrack I release in January that year.

It contains the aerate Jubilee, which is the tag I have submitted for righteousness Kora All Africa Music Acclaim 2004."

Singing mainly in Lingala weather Kiswahili and at times explain French, Runiga, was set total release her latest album, Nimekutana na Yesu (I have Decrease With Jesus), at Nairobi Motion pictures in Nairobi, on September 29, 2007.

This was never give somebody the job of be. On September 22, 2007, Angela, her driver, Kennedy Aluoch, and vocalist, Nimrod Makori, bad in a ghastly morning secondrate accident at Kinale, on prestige Naivasha-Nairobi highway while they were returning to Nairobi from uncluttered performance at Egerton University connect Njoro.

The shocking news of come together death filtered across Kenya about radio and television.

Some uttered that Chibalonza, whose first reputation means angel, "has been hailed to go and lend supplementary voice to the angels joke praise of God up deception heaven". Runiga also sang wealthy languages like Luganda to case across language barriers. Oh Yesu Wange off her Ninapotembea (Whenever I Walk) album, for example, is in Luganda.

Runiga, leaves behind her husband and clergyman of four years, Elisha Muliri.