Muhammad Mumith Ahmed (; born 18 January 1984), known professionally as Mumzy Stranger or his producing name SP (an abbreviation of Stranger Productions), is a British rapper, singer, songwriter and record producer. He made his mainstream recording debut in the summer of 2009 with his debut single "One More Dance" along with follow-up single, "Showgirl". The following year, he released Fly with Me which is the lead single from his debut album, Journey Begins.
He is the first artist of Bangladeshi descent to have entered the mainstream music industry and still remains one of the latest prospects of British Asian R&B artists in Britain. He sings in a unique style combining reggae, dancehall, R&B and Soul music, and in different languages including English, Bengali language, Punjabi language, Hindi and Arabic language.
In 2000, Mumzy started out in the UK garage scene at the age of 16, and was involved in pirate radio until 2003 when he left as he felt like a stranger (from which he derived his stage name).
Two years later, as a graduate from the University of Westminster, achieving a BA (Hons) in Business Information Technology, and as Rishi Rich's protègè, he released his promo singles, "Let's Party" and "Stranger" as part of the extended play, titled Rishi Rich Productions Presents: The EP which features four tracks in collaboration with H-Dhami and Rishi serving as the producer.
He performed for the UK Asian Music Awards, held at Royal Festival Hall and at the Boishakhi Mela, a concert of Bangladeshi musicians; performing almost annually in both.
Mumzy is featured on two tracks on The Streets of Bollywood 3, a remix album by Rishi Rich, Hunterz and Kami K which mainly focuses on bringing Indian and urban music together.
Mumzy collaborated with several UK and internationally recognised desi artists, such as H-Dhami, Preeya Kalidas, Abbas Hasan and Malkit Singh.
On 18 November 2010, Ahmed supported Sean Kingston at The O2 Arena.
Mumzy and Stereo Nation are featured on the soundtrack of It's a Wonderful Afterlife. The track is a remix of a hit song by Stereo Nation, "Larl Larl Buleeya". The track is Stranger's debut on a British film soundtrack. He is also featured on the soundtrack of Toonpur Ka Super Hero, making his debut on a Bollywood film soundtrack.
In December 2010, Mumzy's debut album was Journey Begins released on in the UK. Stranger performed songs from the album with a live orchestra to 600 fans and media at a one-off concert on 18 December at Stratford Circus in Stratford, London. The album's lead single is "Fly With Me", produced by himself at his home studio. The single debuted at number 15 on the UK Asian Download Chart and stayed in the top 40 for more than 17 weeks but dropped off the chart at week 18. There are several remixes of "Fly With Me", a Grime Mix featuring Flo Dan, Gods Gift, KID & Roly; a Rishi Rich Kulcha Mix and a Bangla Mix featuring SH8S. Stranger's fourth and final single from the album is "Spaceman" featuring Wiley produced by chart topping producer Steel Banglez.
After the release of his debut album, he released his new promotional single titled "Mama Used to Say", a collaboration with Grammy-Award winning British R&B singer, Junior Giscombe, which was released on 10 March. Stranger performed the single at the UK AMA with Junior.
On 8 April 2011, Mumzy's single "Heartbreaker" was released as a free download.
Much like his mentor Rishi Rich, Mumzy collaborated with his new protègè and the first addition to the Stranger Family, Junai Kaden, on the track "Aaja Mere Naal". The track is Junai Kaden's debut single and produced by Mumzy himself. The single was released on 14 April 2011 and entered the UK Asian Download Chart at no. 7, making it his very first top 10 single.
In 2012, Mumzy officially launched Stranger Family, a music collective with Junai Kaden, Char Avell, Tasha Tah and Ramee. The group released their debut single, "Ghetto Refix" in 2012, which was a new version of Kaden's track "Ghetto" from his album From Me to You.
In November 2012, Stranger Family was scheduled to tour the UK alongside Canadian-South Asian group Culture Shock in the XOXO Tour, with the two groups even collaborating on a single, "XOXO", for promotion of the tour. However, due to poor ticket sales and issues regarding managing from Tiffin Beats Records, the tour was cancelled and would eventually lead to the breaking up of the Stranger Family.
In 2015, as a crossover collaboration between the UK and the U.S., Mumzy featured on two promotional tracks with Adam Saleh and Sheikh Akbar (formerly known as TrueStoryASA), titled Diamond Girl and the other (without Sheikh Akbar), titled Tomorrow's Another Day.
After leaving his previous label, Tiffin Beats Records, Mumzy released a new record, "Love Comfort", as part of his new label he created, Timeless London.
Similar to how Mumzy launched artists as part of his Stranger Family collective in 2012, Mumzy began launching new artists with his comeback with "Love Comfort". "Love Comfort" featured himself and a new female artist he signed, Shayma, and was produced by Lyan Roze, a producer signed to Timeless London who would go on to produce many of Mumzy's future singles. Mumzy then signed Rupika Vaidya, a Sweden-based singer, and was a featured artist on her debut single, "Karle Manmani" in 2015. In 2016, Mumzy signed Nish, who featured in the Bangla Refix of Ahmed's single "Jaan Atki", which was produced by Lyan Roze and would go on to become No. 1 on the UK ITunes World music Chart. In late 2015, Mumzy Stranger featured in Iksy's parody music video alongside Corner Shop Show, Humza Arshad, Bengali Blitz, Puremovements and Char Avell.
Mumzy Stranger was featured on Dutch-Pakistani F1rstman's collaborative single "Dance" alongside fellow UK South Asian artists Raxstar, H-Dhami & Juggy D. The single, described as starting a "global desi movement", became successful and would go on to feature on Spotify's Global X playlist and win Best Collaboration at the 2019 BritAsia TV Music Awards. The five would also later release a remix featuring Arjun to coincide with the 2019 Cricket World Cup with new lyrics to match the cricket theme.
Mumzy featured on Nish's debut album Identity, co-producing and singing on the lead single "Love Lost" and producing the song "Maa Baba". After Identity, Mumzy was featured on Master-D's summer single "Tumi Jaio Na", both of which are considered part of an "urban Bangla movement".
On 18 October 2019, Mumzy released his second studio album, Vertigo. The album, with hip hop and R&B songs in multiple languages, features Mumzy's previous collaborators Nish, Raxstar, Arjun, F1rstman, and Lyan as well as J Riley, Snap Capone, Corleone and Inkra Dabelle.
In 2020, Mumzy Stranger was featured on "Gallan Kardi", a remix of Jazzy B's hit song "Dil Luteya", from the Bollywood film Jawaani Jaaneman.
In July 2020, Mumzy's 'Habibti' reached #4 on the Billboard 'Top Triller Global' list.
On 29 August 2010, Mumzy took part in the Sky Ride Leicester, a free, family-orientated and fun traffic-free mass participation cycling event in Leicester, England.
For Ramadan 2018, Mumzy took part in Barnardo's FastForADay campaign.
XLVI Records
Avell Pictures
Charity work
Awards and nominations
2009 Urban Music Awards Best UK Asian Act 2010 BritAsia TV Music Awards Best Urban Asian Act 2011 UK Asian Music Awards Best Album ( Journey Begins) Best Male Act Best Urban Act Best Video ("Fly With Me") 2014 BritAsia TV Music Awards Non-Asian Music Producer 2017 Urban Music Awards Artist of the Year (Asia) 2019 BritAsia TV Music Awards Best Collaboration ("Dance" by F1rstman, Juggy D, H Dhami, Mumzy and Raxstar)
Discography
Albums
Mixtapes
Extended plays
Videography
Music videos
2008 "Sadke Java" H-Dhami Sadke Java Moviebox Moviebox Cameo 2009 "One More Dance" Mumzy Stranger Tiffin Beats Records Tiffin Beats Records directed by Phil Hawkins/Box Bot "Showgirl" "It Can Only Be Love" / "City Guy" Rishi Rich & Mumzy Stranger The Streets of Bollywood 3 Moviebox Moviebox "Manjave" Sophie Choudry ft. Mumzy Stranger Sound of Sophie 2010 "Fly With Me" Mumzy Stranger Journey Begins Tiffin Beats Records Tiffin Beats Records directed by Orson Nava "Shimmy" Preeya Kalidas ft. Mumzy Stranger Constant Craving "Sona" Abbas Hasan ft. Mumzy Stranger 2011 "Nach Billo" Malkit Singh ft. Mumzy Stranger Billo Rani Moviebox Moviebox "Ha Karde" Goldkartz ft. Mumzy Stranger 24 Karaatz X1Film "Heartbreaker" Mumzy Stranger Desi Box Desi Box exclusive track "Aaja Mere Naal" Junai Kaden ft. Mumzy Stranger From Me to You Tiffin Beats Records Tiffin Beats Records 2012 "Ghetto Refix" Junai Kaden ft. Mumzy Stranger, Char Avell, Tasha Tah & Ramee 2013 "Runaway" Mumzy Stranger "Let Me In" Salique ft. Mumzy Stranger Black Label "Sazaa" Nafees ft. Mumzy Stranger 2014 "Love Comfort" Mumzy Stranger Timeless London Timeless Media Directed by Mumzy Stranger & Humza Arshad "Get to Know" Directed by Humza Arshad "Kuriya" Rameet Kaur "Got Me Singing" Raxstar ft. Mumzy Stranger Directed by Hasinth Pathirana 2015 "Ash Kardi" Mumzy Stranger Timeless London Timeless Media "Pray" "Diamond Girl" Adam Saleh and Sheikh Akbar TrueStoryASA TrueStoryASA Directed by Waz Islam & Sachin Patel "Circles" Mumzy Stranger Timeless London Timeless Media "Tomorrow's Another Day" Adam Saleh Naz Promotions Naz Promotions "One Last Time Lyan Roze Mix" Stevie Hoang & Mumzy Stranger Stevie Hoang Stevie Hoang 2016 "Jaan Atki" Mumzy Stranger Timeless London Timeless Media Directed by Waz "Won't Leave" Char Avell ft. Mumzy Stranger Timeless London
Timeless Media
"Diamond Jewel" Mumzy Stranger Timeless London Timeless Media Directed by Sachin Patel "Diamond Jewel (Bangla Remix)" "Let's Make Love" Mumzy Stranger & JusZonin 2017 "Manja" Nish Cameo "Turn Me On" Nish ft. Mumzy Stranger Directed by Sachin Patel "Turn Me On (Remix) Nish ft. Mumzy Stranger & Raxstar "Come My Way" Mumzy Stranger Directed by Rafi Rahman
Co-directed by Raju Shamsher "Jaan Kad Di Jaave" Mumzy Stranger ft. H-Dhami & LYAN Directed by Sachin Patel & Rafi Rahman "Umaana" Mumzy Stranger Directed by Sachin Patel 2018 "Dominoes" Mumzy Stranger Directed by Nish & Sachin Patel "Love Lost" Nish ft. Mumzy Stranger & LYAN Identity Timeless London
Backhouse LDN Directed by Sachin Patel "Lights Low" Mumzy Stranger Timeless London Directed by Sachin Patel
Co-directed by Raju Shamsher "Yaara" Rupika ft. Mumzy Stranger & Nish Directed by Sachin Patel "Dance" F1rstman ft. H-Dhami, Mumzy Stranger, Raxstar & Juggy D At F1rst Music At F1rst Music Directed by Denis Majstorovic 2019 "Know You Wanna" Mumzy Stranger Timeless London Timeless Media Directed by Sachin Patel "Tumi Jaio Na" Master-D ft. Mumzy Stranger Qinetic Music
Bilz Music Qinetic Music Directed by PeeZee "Xoss" Nish Backhouse LDN Timeless Media Cameo "Dil Luteya" Mumzy Stranger Vertigo Timeless London Directed by Zubby and Zak Timol "Broken" Mumzy Stranger ft. Arjun Directed by Capone "Hold Up" Mumzy Stranger ft. Nish & LYAN Qinetic Music Directed by Donovan "Raani" Mumzy Stranger Timeless Media Directed by Nish 2020 "Stay With Me" Mumzy Stranger ft. Inkra Dabelle Qinetic Music Directed by Hector Toro "Tell Me" Mumzy Stranger Timeless Media Directed by Sachin Patel "Lean On Me" Mumzy Stranger Directed by Tahmid Chowdhury "Habibti" Mumzy Stranger & DJ LYAN Directed by Waz "Jugni 2.0" Kanika Kapoor ft. Mumzy Stranger & DJ LYAN Zee Music Company Zee Music Company Directed by Luke Biggins "Garage Billo" Mumzy Stranger 5 Reasons Timeless London Timeless Media Directed by Sachin Patel "Korbona" Mumzy Stranger ft. Nish "Faith" Mumzy Stranger 2021 "No Going Back" Mumzy Stranger ft. Dixi "Thought It Was Love" Mumzy Stranger "Lost" Rishi Rich, Mumzy Stranger & Jagtar 3 Chapters Break the Noise Records Break the Noise Records
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