Kenya News News Kenya » Music: Ruto announces Sony, Universal and Warner Music to establish presence in Nairobi
Ruto announces that Sony Music, Universal Music Group, and Warner Music Group will establish operations in Nairobi, enhancing Kenya’s creative economy.
News Kenya » Music: Ruto announces Sony Music, Universal, Warner Music to set up offices in Nairobi
Ruto announces that Sony Music, Universal Music Group, and Warner Music Group will establish a presence in Nairobi, positioning Kenya as Africa's music hub.
News Kenya » Music: The evolution of Kenyan music
The evolution of music in Kenya is a rich and vibrant story that spans several decades. Indeed, traditional Kenyan music is deeply rooted in the diverse indigenous cultures of the country. Each ...
News Kenya » Music: Kenya’s ‘patriotic’ choral music has been used to embed a skewed version of history
Choral music – patriotic choral music in particular – is a significant genre in Kenya’s political history. Patriotic music is defined by how it engages citizen to praise and express sentiments of ...
News Kenya » Music: Why Kenyans are not listening to their own music, and the Eric Omondi factor
A section of Kenyan musicians say they are not getting enough support from their fans, in terms of streaming and buying music. Some fans opine, however, that a lot of Kenyan musicians don’t churn out ...
News Kenya » Music: How trends influence Kenyan music
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 ...
News Kenya » Music: Meet The Kenyan Collective Bridging The Gap Between Traditional And Electronic Music
On a Tuesday night in May, I braved Nairobi’s grinding traffic to make my way downtown to a venue called the Igiza Lounge. Perched on the second-floor balcony of the stone-clad Kenya National Theater, ...
News Kenya » Music: Kenya: The rise and fall of Gengetone music
On 31 May, 2018, a group of relatively young Kenyan boys dropped a peculiar-sounding song on YouTube, and with it, a new genre of music was birthed. The song was titled ‘Lamba Lolo,’ and those boys – ...
News Kenya » Music: The Magnificent Cross-Cultural Recordings of Kenya’s Kipsigis Tribe
In 1950, Hugh Tracey, a British-born ethnomusicologist, travelled to Kapkatet, Kenya, to record the native songs of the Kipsigis, a pastoral tribe based in the western highlands of the Rift Valley.