December 16, 2025 · Music & Releases
BotangRecords Gives the World a New Way to Celebrate: "Happy Birthday Song"
High-energy African rhythm meets the one song every person on earth has a reason to play at least once a year.
Saint Michael, Minnesota
Watch the video: [youtube.com/watch?v=p2pEBwCklqo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2pEBwCklqo)
BotangRecords closed out 2025 with something different from anything else in its catalog: a birthday song. Written and produced by Martin Tohmo and released under BotangRecords, "Happy Birthday Song" turns the most universal celebration on the calendar into a high-energy African beat — built to work for a five-year-old's cake-cutting moment just as well as a grandmother's 100th birthday party.
A song built for every table, every generation
In BotangRecords' own words, the track is meant to turn any birthday into an unforgettable celebration — for a spouse, a child, a mother, a father, a sibling, a friend, anyone. It's a rare kind of release: not tied to a single event, a single audience, or a single moment in the news, but to something that happens in every family, every culture, every year. Infectious rhythm, catchy lyrics, and — as BotangRecords put it — pure joy, dressed in the same African sound the organization brings to every festival stage and Children's Village.
"Happy Birthday Song" released December 16, 2025, on YouTube and across more than 150 digital platforms worldwide, joining BotangRecords' growing catalog alongside "Kwang Kwang (Remix)" and other original productions — proof that a nonprofit record label can build a real, evergreen catalog, not just one-off event recaps.
Why it matters
A cultural mission doesn't only live in festivals and grant-funded programs — it lives in the songs a family plays at a birthday party for the next twenty years. "Happy Birthday Song" is built to become exactly that: the track someone in Minnesota, Cameroon, or anywhere else in the diaspora reaches for the next time it's someone's turn to blow out the candles, carrying an African sound into living rooms that might never otherwise hear it.
- Listen and celebrate — [watch on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2pEBwCklqo), or stream on Spotify, Apple Music, and 150+ other platforms. - Share it — send it to someone whose birthday is coming up; every play and share helps the song (and BotangRecords) reach further. - Support BotangRecords — streaming and purchasing original music is one of the simplest ways to help fund the label's mentorship and cultural programs.