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"Ee Mungu Nguvu Yetu"'s lyrics were originally written in Kiswahili, the national language of Kenya. The commission responsible for its creation included five members and was headed by the Kenya Music Adviser. The anthem was based on a traditional tune sung by Pokomo mothers to their children. [1]
Wangechi was born on January 19, 1994, and was raised in Nairobi, Kenya. Her passion for music began at the tender age of ten. Stating that her major inspiration behind music was rapper and songstress Nazizi.
Kenya's diverse ethnic groups each have their own folk music traditions, though most have declined in popularity in recent years as gospel music became more popular. The Turkana people of the north, the Bajuni , Akamba , Borana , Chuka , Gusii , Kikuyu , Luhya and Lu , the Maasai and the related Samburu and the Mijikenda ("nine tribes") of the ...
Them Mushrooms is a musical band from Kenya, playing mostly Chakacha, some Benga and also some reggae.They are most famous for the Swahili 1982 song Jambo Bwana.The band is composed of Teddy Kalanda, Henry Ndenge Saha and Ben Mutwiwa.
He is a pioneer urban style artist in Kenya and topped the Kenyan music scene for a while in the late 1990s. [ 2 ] He emerged in 1997 with popular hit "Uhiki" and an album named Nuting but de Stone , produced by Tedd Josiah of Sync Sound Studios and released internationally by German-based Kelele Records. [ 3 ]
Benga is a genre of Kenyan popular music.It evolved between the late 1940s and late 1960s, in Kenya's capital city of Nairobi.In the 1940s, the African Broadcasting Service in Nairobi aired a steady stream of soukous, South African kwela, Congolese finger-style guitar and various kinds of Cuban dance music that heavily influenced emergence of benga.
Chart newcomer Kenya Grace has made history as her debut single “Strangers” reached the No 1 spot. Born in South Africa but raised in Southampton, Grace began releasing music independently in ...
Kleptomaniax is a rap group from Nairobi, Kenya. The group consists of three members: Roba (Robert Manyasa), Collo (Collins Majale) and Nyashinski (Nyamari Ongegu). Kleptomaniax were formed in 1999, when they were still high school students at the Nairobi School.