Listen Suzanna Owiyo is a multi-award winning musician. She has won the Kora Award and Kisima Award for Most Promising Musician and nominated Best Kenyan Female Artist at Pearl of Africa Music Awards, and has performed before numerous Heads of State, including Nelson Mandela and Barack Obama. In December 2001, President Daniel arap Moi, Tanzania’s […]
Listen Suzanne Gachukia is a composer, musician, performer, producer and entrepreneur. She is the owner and Director of Sub-Saharan Limited (formerly Samawati), a company that produces music, films and television shows. The company, which doubles up as a media training institute, has over 300 works in audio and film under its belt in addition to […]
Listen The rarely seen combination of musician and entrepreneur is found in the vivacious Muthoni Ndonga, creator of a hugely successful family-themed picnic event that has launched the careers of many talented artistes. It is not every day that you meet a young woman making waves both in the business world and in the music […]
Listen Pioneer gospel singer Mary Atieno Ominde is living proof that disability is not inability; blind from birth, she became a leading artiste in Kenya’s gospel music arena in the 1980s and 1990s, producing numerous albums that continue to inspire millions. Her first album, Adam na Eva, released in 1982, remained popular for years. As […]
Listen Jennifer Atieno Sanna, or Atisanna, to use her stage name, is Kenya’s first professional female nyatiti player. The nyatiti, an eight-stringed harp, was traditionally played only by men among the Luo. She learned how to play this instrument under the tutelage of accomplished nyatiti players, later training further at the Kenya National Theatre. She […]
Listen Remembered for gracing our television screens as the firm but encouraging Tusker Project Fame Academy’s music teacher, Hellen Mtawali is an accomplished singer, composer, choreographer and lecturer at Daystar University, who uses song to evangelise and to help the less fortunate, and has been instrumental in mentoring Kenya’s next generation of musicians. Hellen Mtawali […]
Listen Esther Wahome is a renowned gospel artiste who was not afraid to step out of the norm and create gospel music that can be played anywhere. Ranked by the Music Copyright Society of Kenya as one of Kenya’s top earners in the Performances in Public Places category, she has flown the national flag high […]
Listen Emmy Kosgei is a gospel singer, fashion designer and philanthropist. Due to her Christian upbringing, she started singing in church at a young age and later while in high school, collaborated with other artists including Maximum Melodies. Her musical influences include Esther Wahome, Rebecca Malope, Keke and the late Miriam Makeba. Kosgei has released […]
Listen The name Achieng’ Abura is synonymous with Afro-fusion and Afro-jazz music in Kenya. Although she started as a gospel artiste in 1991, she later found her niche in the Afro-fusion genre. Her first Afro-fusion album titled Maisha, released in 2002, earned her a nomination for the KORA All Africa Music Awards for Best Female […]