In mid-April, artistes, deejays, sound engineers, TikTokers and other content creators filled up Nairobi Street Kitchen for the official launch of Arbantone. An ordinary evening where the rains ...

Kenyan musician Idd Aziz has emerged as the most internationally streamed artist from Kenya in the first half of 2025, according to Spotify’s newly released Global Impact List. The list, unveiled on ...

Kenyan musicians have outdone themselves this year by releasing some of the best music albums. Below we look at some of them and the work that was put in to deliver the final masterpiece. If ...

In a small studio at Chuka University, Stephen Bucheri sits in front of his laptop, blending an AI-generated beat with his own live recordings. He is not waiting for record labels or expensive studios ...

Vic West, a music producer from Kenya, whose real name is Victor Amani, says he is a “shy genius”, even though he publicly confessed in a podcast last year that he has a massive ego. In an interview ...

Streaming giant Spotify is celebrating 20 years of sound, discovery and culture with the launch of ‘Spotify 20: Your Party of ...

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