Fumba Chama (born 6 April 1984), known professionally as Pilato, is a Zambian hip hop recording artist from Ndola. The name Pilato written as Pilato is an acronym for People in Lyrical Arena Taking Over. Born and raised in the Copperbelt province, Pilato commenced his career as a poet at the age of 10, before formally moving into the music industry in 2010, when poetry became his music. Pilato has released three studio albums.
Music and politics
In between the years 2010 and 2011 at the beginning of his transition to a human rights activist he released a song satirically referring to some non-performing Zambian MP's as "Mental Patients". In 2013, he recorded a single entitled "Bufi" featuring Petersen, a highly politically charged song that labeled the late President Michael Sata a "Father of Lies".[5] The song got negative feedback as the supporters of the ruling party were up in arms and he claims he received numerous death threats over the song.