
Chimaobinna Enyiakanwanne Onyele (born
6. November 1972
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,
in
Frankfurt
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,
Germany
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[Freddy Langer: Weißer Hai zwischen hundert Elefanten, in: FAZ Nr. 224, 26. September 2015, S. B2.]), known by the stagename Chima (
͡ʃiːma is a German singer based in Frankfurt. A member of
Brothers Keepers, since 2012 he has recorded as a solo artist for
Universal Music
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.
Life
Chima's parents moved in the 1960th from
Nigeria
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to
Germany
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.
He was born in 1972 in
Frankfurt
Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian: , " Frank ford on the Main"), is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located on its ...
,
where he graduated from the Ernst-Reuter-School. Afterwards he has studied
Sociology
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.
[Kathrin Rosendorff]
Ein Gespräch mit … Chima
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Discography
Albums:
* 2002: ''Reine Glaubenssache''
* 2005: ''Im Rahmen der Möglichkeiten''
* 2012: ''Stille''
* 2014: ''Von Steinen und Elefanten''
Singles:
* 2001: ''Ich leb das''
* 2002: ''Lass los''
* 2005: ''Wundervoll''
* 2006: ''Immer noch''
* 2012: ''Morgen''
* 2012: ''Ausflug ins Blaue''
* 2012: ''Fliegen''
* 2014: ''100 Elefanten''
* 2014: ''Das große Schweigen'' (exclusive on Spotify
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)
References
1972 births
Living people
21st-century German male singers
Musicians from Frankfurt
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