Gigy Money

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Gigy Money
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Background information
Birth nameGift Stanford Joshua
Born (1998-07-18) July 18, 1998 (age 25)
Temeke District, Dar es Salaam Region, Tanzania
Genres Bongo Flava, Amapiano
Occupation(s) Singer
Internet personality
Video vixen
Social media influencer
InstrumentsVocals
Years active2016 - present
LabelsIndependent

Gift Stanford Joshua (born July 18, 1997) known by her stage name Gigy Money is a Tanzanian singer, and internet personality. [1] [2] [3] [4] Gigy became a household after releasing Papa, a Bongo Flava song written by Marioo in 2017. Throughout her music career, Gigy Money has worked with different music heavyweights including Whozu, Tamimu, Rosa Ree, Lava Lava and more.

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Social controversies

Gigy Money has been accused, charged [5] and sometimes banned for violating the operating procedure of art activities in Tanzania, using foul language and posting nude contents on her social media. [6]

In 2019 the National Arts Council of Tanzania banned Gigy Money [7] from doing any art activity inside and outside of Tanzania a for six months and to give a sum of one million Tanzanian shillings for the offense of humiliating his personality while performing in a dress that showed her body half naked [8] at the concert that was broadcast live on Wasafi TV which also received a six months [9] punishment from Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority [10] for the incident.

'The Wife material show'

Gigy Money [11] was one of the contestants of a reality show Wife material season 2 [12] organized by a Kenyan Comedian Eric Omondi, [13] [14] but she was forced out when she had a fight with a fellow contestant from Tanzania called Sumaiyah in a club during the show, she later on accused [15] Omondi of forcing the contestants to fight to get the content. [16]

Relationships

Gigy Money alleged to have had a romantic relationship with Tanzanian singer Ali Kiba, [17] who denied the allegations from the vixen. She once made a public statement on her desire to have children with singer Diamond Platnumz [18] and a Tanzanian television host, Idris Sultan. [19]

In 2020, Gigy Money had a violent fight [20] with her then Nigerian boyfriend [21] called nicknamed Hunchy Huncho [22] who were separated after the incident. [23] Gigy Money claimed to have a big number of abortions, still she managed to have a daughter [24] she had with her ex boyfriend. [25]

Discography

Singles

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