Bina a bling biography

Musical artist

Congolese musician (born 1992)

Bolia Matundu (born 12 July 1992), also known by the initialism BM, is a Congolese-born, British singer-songwriter, dancer, director and record producer. Born in Kinshasa and raised in London, Matundu is considered one of the influential figures in 21st-century ndombolo music.

Matundu rose to prominence with his 2015 hit single "Ebebi" from his eponymous debut studio album, which gained international acclaim and amassed significant viewership on YouTube. His subsequent hit single "Rosalina" (2018), along with its remix featuring Awilo Longomba released that same year, enjoyed continent-wide success, giving rise to the viral "Rosalina dance challenge" trend that rapidly proliferated across social media platforms and was embraced by various celebrities.

Early years

Bolia Matundu was born on 12 July 1992 in Kinshasa, in what was then Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo), and later moved to England at the age of seven. At 14, while being an active member of his father's choir, BM developed a fervent passion for music, taking inspiration from Werrason, Koffi Olomidé, and Papa Wemba. During his teenage years, he co-founded the group DRT, gaining national recognition in the UK for their electro-rap single, "Get Mad Now," released on 17 September 2010,

Bina Bilenky is what you would call a real, deal bicycle industry lifer. She grew up sorting, organizing, and cleaning shop at Bilenky Cycle Works, her father’s (Stephen) bicycle company. As she grew up, she worked her way through the administrative side of the company, taking orders, keeping things organized and herding Bilenky’s famous shop cats, professionally. While traveling around the US promoting Bilenky Cycle Works, Bina and Stephen saw an opportunity for an east coast show, one that would be designed to be a public bicycle exhibition with a deliberately broad-reaching bent.

Thus, the Philadelphia Bike Expo was born – and since year two, the show has been in the very capable hands of show organizer, director, and current owner Bina Bilenky.

Under Bina’s reign, the Expo has been a quiet leader in progressive programming. At a time when most of the industry is dancing around inclusive language, Bina has been proactive about baking inclusivity into the show and its programming from inception. And for the show’s tenth anniversary this year, she’s really pulled out all the stops.

The seminar series features a slate of heavy hitters in cycling inclusivity.

Tenzin Namdol will be presenting the recent summit for WTF Bike Explorers, “A growing community of women, trans, femme, and gender non confirming/ gender-queer/non-binary cyclists are changing the imagination of what an adventure cyclist looks like.”

Ayesha McGowan of A Quick Brown Fox (also a recent guest on the Bikerumor Podcast) is rumored to be presenting on the topic of having difficult discussions around inclusivity.

Bike Design Superstar (and My Personal Hero), Georgena Terry, will be leading a seminar with Fitter Superstar, Anne Barnes of ABBikeFit on whether Women-Specific Design is necessary, which should be rich in depth of information and super interesting.

And last but not least, this year’s really exciting project is shaping up to be

Indian singing duo

Nooran Sisters are Sultana Nooran (born 14 June 1992) and Jyoti Nooran (born 24 February 1994), an Indian devotional Sufi singing duo. Born to a family of Sufi musicians, they perform Sham Chaurasia gharanaclassical music. They gained public recognition in 2012, when their song "Tung Tung" was featured on MTV Sound Trippin of MTV India and was used in the soundtrack for the 2015 film Singh is Bling.

Nooran Sisters released their first album, Yaar Gariban Da, in 2015. The same year, they received their first major awards, for the song "Patakha Guddi", which appeared in the film Highway, including two Mirchi Music Awards—for Upcoming Female Vocalist of the Year and Vocalist (Female) of the Year. They were also decorated at the Global Indian Music Academy Awards and the Screen Awards. The duo additionally received the Best Playback Singer (Female) award at the Filmfare Awards Punjabi, for the song "Yaar Di Gali", in 2017.

Early life and background

Sultana and Jyoti Nooran trained from early childhood under their father, Ustad Gulshan Mir (or Meer), grandson of Bibi Nooran, a Sufi singer, and son of Swarn Nooran, a Sufi singer of the