NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Not many musicians can boast they've made U.S. President Barack Obama get up and groove to their tunes. But Kenya's Afro-pop band, Sauti Sol, did just that. Obama, whose father ...
The summer concert season in the United States is underway, and Kenyan musicians are taking centre stage as they reconnect diaspora audiences with the sounds of home.Leading the charge is the Jose ...
NAIROBI — The guitar thrummed, the drumsticks smashed into a quivering cymbal, and the lead vocalist for Rash howled into the mic, electrifying the night air. After years in the wilderness, Kenya’s ...
Since independence, Kenyan musicians have developed unique ways of performing and writing music. It was in the mid-20th century that the genres of Benga, Bango, and Taarab were created by local ...
On May 16, 2022, the award-winning Kenyan band Sauti Sol issued a stern statement via Twitter/X, alleging a significant copyright infringement by the Azimio la Umoja-One Kenya Coalition. According to ...
Vic West, a music producer from Kenya, whose real name is Victor Amani, says he is a “shy genius”, even though he publicly confessed in a podcast last year that he has a massive ego. In an interview ...
NAIROBI, Kenya, June 11 (UNHCR) - A group of Somali refugee musicians in the Kenyan capital Nairobi have ruffled a few feathers with their flouting of conservative traditions and their songs on ...
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