by Yule Dark
2133 Articles
In the 1970’s & 1980’s, Nairobi, Kenya became the Mecca of African Pop World. Not only were the local stars drawing the crowds to the new night club’s scene, but bands coming from Tanzania and Zaire (Congo D.R.C) were also pulling big crowds onto every dance floor especially at week-ends
D.O. Misiani appeals to leaders of East Africa to open their borders so that it creates development and opportunities for all its citizens (East Africa). It was only in his early teens that Daniel Owino (D.O.) Misiani was first drawn away from his little Tanzanian home of Shirati along the
New Nyanza Success was a band that owed its success to the arrival of BENGA in Western Kenya. As this new music took off, Victoria Jazz were the first BIG starts to be followed by D.O. Misiani’s Shirati Luo Voice Jazz, and bands under George Ramogi, Ochieng Nelly Mengo, Collela
This 14 track selection comes from the original famous stable of The Victoria Kings. In the early 1970s a young technician named Phares Oluoch Kanindo, who was working with the Kenya News Agency, and then more latterly The Voice of Kenya, picked up on the new BENGA music that was