Samantha Mumba has been played on NTS in shows including Soup To Nuts w/ Anu, featured first on 23 November 2022. Songs played include Baby Come On Over and Gotta Tell You (M65 Remix).

Mumba was born in Drumcondra, Dublin, Ireland to Peter Mumba, a Zambian aircraft engineer and Barbara, an airhostess with Aer Lingus, who is Irish; she has a brother, Omero Mumba, who is an actor. Between the ages of 3 and 15, she was a student at Dublin's renowned Billie Barry Stage School.

In 1998, she was cast as the lead in The Hot Mikado, a jazzy production based on Gilbert and…