Ya Kid K (born 1972, Kinshasa) is the artist name of Manuela 'Ya Kid K' Kamosi, a Congo-Belgian hip-hop artist. Her sister, Karoline 'Leki' Kamosi, is an R&b singer. Ya is a Lingala word, meaning older brother or sister, so Ya Kid K simply means: the older Kamosi child. When she was 15 years old, she left Belgium (alone) and went to Chicago. There she became the rapper of the new-beat/hip-hop group Technotronic, who had a major worldwide hit in 1990 with "Pump Up The Jam". Kinshasa (formerly Léopoldville) is the capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. ... The Democratic Republic of the Congo is a nation in central Africa and the third largest country on the continent. ... The Kingdom of Belgium ( Dutch: Koninkrijk België, French: Royaume de Belgique, German: Königreich Belgien) is a country in Western Europe, bordered by the Netherlands, Germany, Luxembourg, France, and the North Sea. ... Hip hop is a cultural movement that began amongst urban African American youth in New York and has since spread around the world. ... ... ... Rhythm and blues (or R & B) is a musical marketing term introduced in the United States in the late 1940s by Billboard magazine. ... Lingala is one of the Bantu languages spoken throughout the northwestern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Congo-Kinshasa) and a large part of the Republic of the Congo (Congo-Brazzaville), as well as to some degree in Angola and the Central African Republic. ... Chicagos skyline at day Chicago is the third largest city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles, with an official population of 2,896,016, as of the 2000 US Census. ... Technotronic is a Belgian Techno band formed by Jo Bogaert in the late eighties. ... 1990 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...