Mariama (born 1986 as Mariama Jalloh in Freetown, Sierra Leone) is a singer-songwriter of Sierra Leonian birth who lives in Cologne, Germany. Her first name means 'Gods Gift'. LifeMariama moved at the age of one with her family from Freetown, the hometown of her father, to Refrath the oldest part of the German city Bergisch Gladbach in North Rhine-Westphalia, from where her mother originates. At age sixteen she started to play guitar and to write songs. Two years later she gained her first stage experience by taking part in a musical.