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 ...

Let’s take a trip down memory lane to a time when Kenyan Hip-hop was on another level. When you talk about Kenyan hip-hop, the first artists to come to mind are the likes of E-sir, Abbas, Necessary ...

Kenya may seem an unlikely place for a hot country music scene, but it's there that one popular local musician is taking cues from some American kings of country, reports CBS News correspondent Major ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Not many musicians can boast they’ve made U.S. President Barack Obama get up and groove to their tunes. But Kenya’s Afro-pop band, Sauti Sol, did just that. Obama, whose father ...

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 ...

Kenya’s music industry is creeping onto the radar of the dance music world. In 2017, top American DJ Diplo performed to a sellout crowd in a watershed moment for the Kenyan electronic music scene. “We ...

Kenyan rapper Khaligraph Jones has called out a Kenyan journalist for undermining Kenyan music genres Arbantone and Gengetone ...

This year will go down as when Kenyan artists worked their hardest. Numerous albums were released, hit singles came out from the unlikeliest of quarters, and Nyashinski even showed Kenyan artists they ...

Just a Band’s music video (or, more accurately, short film set to music) is a pastiche of blaxploitation like Shaft, crime-centric American film ranging from Tarantino to the Beastie Boys’ “Sabotage,” ...

Betty Bayo's death in the morning of November 10, 2025, has sent waves through the Kenyan gospel community. The gospel singer, Beatrice Wairimu Mbugua, was secretly battling leukaemia for some time ...

NAIROBI, Kenya — Sir Elvis, dressed in a yellow-and-black plaid shirt, jeans, boots and a black cowboy hat, tuned his guitar under the wooden roof and neon beer advertisements of the Reminisce Bar and ...