Lady Jaydee's Page

Lady Jaydee aka Binti Machozi started singing in church at the age of 7

In the mid 1990s she was a member of the Afro Reign group

It was not until 2000 when she released her first solo album titled “Machozi” which crowned her Tanzanian Best Female Artist in 2001. She has continued winning numerous awards in and out of Tanzania including the most recent awards in South Africa during the Channel O Video Music Awards Best African East 2005 for the “Distance” and Best Collaboration Video with Titi from Uganda for “Makini” video

In addition of using swahili as her primary language in her music, Jaydee has songs that incorporate English, French, Lingala, Zulu etc

Notable international collaboration include Samba Mapangala from Congo, Chameleone from Uganda and Mina Nawe from South Africa

• 2000 Released first album titled Machozi

• 2001 awarded Best Female Artist at the M-Net Tanzania Music awards

• 2002 performed at Kora All Africa Designers competition

• 2003 Released second album titled Binti

• 2003 Kora Music Awards nominee for The Most Promising Female Artist In Africa

• 2003 awarded the Best Female Artist in East Africa at the Channel-O’s Reel Video Music awards

• 2004 awarded Best R&B Album at the Tanzania Music Awards

• 2005 Released third album titled Moto

• 2005 Kora Awards nominee for the Best Female from East Africa

• 2006 awarded Best Female Artist from Tanzania at the Uganda Pearl of Africa Music awards

• 2007 Jaydee will be releasing her fourth album which is titled Shukrani that include the first hit single "Siku hazigandi"