Kenyan-born Cloud Tissa performed for the first time in a rap battle in Nairobi where he won the battle and found out that music performance was his calling. In 1998, at 15, he released his first album called “Laumu” meaning blame in Swahili. Cloud Tissa has been one of the few Swahili artists to have his reggae songs aired in Europe and to top the charts for months in a row. “If there was no music I would have invented music, and if there was no music industry, I would have become the music industry.”