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…sic and for the last 30 years has been involved in the music industry as a promoter, producer, composer and band manager. He has been actively involved in shaping the careers and running some of the top recording and performing bands and artists in the country. Together with the director of Alliance Française in Nairobi, Tabu Osusa co-chairs the steering committee of the “Spotlight on Kenyan Music“ project which seeks to discover and promote young…
Day Four: 10 March 2022 (Rongo) Story
…toured extensively. Ontitri has been invited to perform in South Korea and Germany, not mention that he was one of the leading performers at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in 2014. Ontiri on the obukano and vocals was backed by Leonidah Basbori on tumba and vocals with Lavin Kwamboka, Cliff Mogeni Mogaka, and Omuya Cyprine Moraa all on background vocals. Fiston was on guitar with Dave on bass. Ontiri is married to Ruth Moraa and the two reside…
Music Depositories and Archives around the World News
…170s and, inspired by the culture, a record collector. When he returned to Germany, he became a lecturer at the Bayreuth University and continued to enlarge his record collection. Finally, in 1991 it was large enough to form an archive, so he set up the AMA at Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz and became the first director of the AMA. It contains both commercial material and field recordings in many formats, with supplementary newspapers clippi…
Ketebul Music: A Year in Review News
…n. Makadem has also toured all over, Croatia (where he met the President), Germany, and Denmark. Olith Ratego has been to Germany almost every other month where he is very successful. Gargar, our Somalia women, won a major award in France. They’ve yet to go and receive it. Later this year they are travelling to Kuwait. Bado is our latest talent that we discovered during the first Singing Wells project. Rapasa is a new artist. I am also looking to…
The Tribal and Musical Structure of East Africa – Worldmap Research News
…s free and open source which means any researcher can work with the source code to extend and improve its functionality, so it is constantly developing and improving. It’s also web-based so it’s easy to access and share, which is exactly what we want in order to carry on building the Singing Wells community. Rosie has made some ‘how-to’ guides on how to add to a map yourself which you can access easily on our website too, in a few steps, ‘Housekee…