Schwesta Ewa

At 8:30 AM on 16 November 2016, Ewa was arrested by a SEK police tactical unit in Oeventrop , a district of Arnsberg, North Rhine-Westphalia where she was recording her new album. She was detained at JVA Frankfurt-Preungesheim [de] on charges of human trafficking for sexual exploitation, pimping, bodily harm and offenses against the German tax code. Ewa had been under investigation by the organised crime department of Frankfurt Police for several months, and was alleged to have brought young female fans, between the ages of 17 and 19, to a hotel room and offered to lend them money for costs such as rent, clothing, cosmetics and petrol, then forced them into prostitution to repay this debt. Following the arrest, Ewa's record label released a statement that her surname had been changed to Malanda. On 20 June 2017, Malanda was found guilty of 35 counts of bodily harm, tax violations and the abuse of minors, and was sentenced to 2 years and 6 months. She was cleared of pimping and human trafficking, on the grounds that the girls had become prostitutes of their own free will. Malanda intends to appeal.

Her debut album, Kurwa (from the Polish kurwa, both a slang term for "whore" and a general-purpose expletive; formerly Dr. Entjungferung ("Dr. Deflowering", with "Dr" also standing for "Deutschrap")) was released in January 2015 and reached number 11 in the German album charts.

Ewa began sex work at the brothel in the back of the bar. She then moved to Bonn, and then on to Frankfurt's Bahnhofsviertel red light district. Her alias there was "Anja ", for which she adopted a false Polish accent. There, she was able to earn €20–30 thousand a month as a prostitute, but also became addicted to crack cocaine. Suffering under its effects, her looks deteriorated and her earnings began to decrease, until she was forced to give up cold turkey.

With Xatar running his record label from prison, Schwesta Ewa eventually managed to appear on the song "Beifall" from Xatar's album 415 and on "Frauen" on Hinterhofjargon by Celo & Abdi [de] . Her first mixtape, Realität ("Reality") was released on 5 October 2012. No tracks from Realität charted, but her first music video, "Schwätza" ("Small Talker") received over six million views on YouTube. After the release of the "Schwätza" video in 2011, Ewa gave up prostitution to become a full-time artist.

In December 2009, Xatar and seven accomplices robbed €1.7 million of gold from a transporter lorry. Xatar fled to Iraq, where he was caught and arrested in February 2010. Xatar's flight and subsequent arrest impacted Ewa 's career – she found herself "twiddling her thumbs", unable to share her tracks with him. However, she also decided that she would not go back to prostitution – her promotion as a rapper meant that she was now famous, and she was worried about returning to drugs. She has described rap as a form of music therapy, helping her work through her past.

Schwesta Ewa is the stage name of Ewa Malanda (born 16 July 1984), a Polish rapper in the Frankfurt music scene. Ewa 's family were stranded in Germany while en route to the United States when she was a child. She currently lives in Frankfurt, where she originally moved in order to work as a prostitute. While working, she met the rapper Xatar, who signed her to his record label, and her first album, Kurwa, reached number 11 on the German album chart. On 16 November 2016 she was arrested and charged with the sex trafficking and forced prostitution of five of her fans, some of whom were underage.

Ewa Müller was born 16 July 1984 in Koszalin, Poland to a Polish Jewish and Moslem family. Her father was arrested and imprisoned on the charge of murder while Ewa's mother was pregnant, and so Ewa spent the first three years of her life in hiding – her mother feared that the family of the victim would attack her in revenge.