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  2. Music of Kenya - Wikipedia

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    Kenyan Musicians performing traditional Luo songs Benga music has been popular since the late 1960s, especially around Lake Victoria . The word benga is occasionally used to refer to any kind of pop music: bass , guitar and percussion are the usual instruments.

  3. Ee Mungu Nguvu Yetu - Wikipedia

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    The anthem was based on a traditional tune sung by Pokomo mothers to their children. [1] "Ee Mungu Nguvu Yetu" is notable for being one of the first national anthems to be specifically commissioned. It was written by the Kenyan Anthem Commission in 1963 to serve as the state anthem after independence from the United Kingdom. The lyrics was ...

  4. Benga music - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. List of Kenyan musicians - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Kenyan musicians and musical groups. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .

  6. Sub-Saharan African music traditions - Wikipedia

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    The Luo peoples inhabit an area that stretches from Southern Sudan and Ethiopia through northern Uganda and eastern Congo (DRC), into western Kenya and Tanzania and include the Shilluk, Acholi, Lango and Joluo (Kenyan and Tanzanian Luo). Luo Benga music derives from the traditional music of the nyatiti lyre: [55] the Luo-speaking Acholi of ...

  7. Category:Kenyan songs - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Kenyan songs" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. E. Ee Mungu Nguvu Yetu;

  8. How Kenya Grace made chart history as her self-produced ... - AOL

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    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 ...

  9. Orutu - Wikipedia

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    The missionaries, with the cooperation of the imperial administration, were probably most directly responsible for the modification, suppression, or even disappearance of many aspects of traditional culture and music in most of the African societies (Hanna, 1965). everything African or indigenous was purported as bad and contrary to God's will.