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Reggae Music In Kenya
Reggae music by most Kenyan artists is mainly a fusion of Jamaican reggae and local styles that incorporate benga music and other genres popular in Kenya like hip hop. There’s however, artists who have embraced the genre staying true to its Jamaican roots like Lavosti, Shamir & Cathy Matete. In Kenya, reggae music is accessed through radio stations, night clubs, privately owned minibuses commonly known as Matatu , matatus, private CD collections, unlicensed CD compilations, shared MP3 collections, YouTube, and other websites. Reggae music has had a significant influence on the entertainment, culture, craft occupations and development of ''Sheng slang'' in Kenya. Reggae music in Kenya is viewed as a powerful agent of both positive and negative social changes such as calls for freedom, tolerance, unity and the drugs subculture. History While reggae music had already made its way in Kenya by the late 1970s, it was not until the early 1990s that local radio stations and televisi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reggae
Reggae () is a music genre that originated in Jamaica during the late 1960s. The term also denotes the modern popular music of Jamaica and its Jamaican diaspora, diaspora. A 1968 single by Toots and the Maytals, "Do the Reggay", was the first popular song to use the word ''reggae'', effectively naming the genre and introducing it to a global audience. Reggae is rooted in traditional Jamaican Kumina, Pukkumina, Revival Zion, Nyabinghi, and burru drumming. Jamaican reggae music evolved out of the earlier genres mento, ska and rocksteady. Reggae usually relates news, social gossip, and political commentary. It is recognizable from the counterpoint between the bass and drum downbeat and the offbeat rhythm section. The immediate origins of reggae were in ska and rocksteady; from the latter, reggae took over the use of the bass as a percussion instrument. Stylistically, reggae incorporates some of the musical elements of rhythm and blues, jazz, mento (a celebratory, rural folk form ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghetto
A ghetto is a part of a city in which members of a minority group are concentrated, especially as a result of political, social, legal, religious, environmental or economic pressure. Ghettos are often known for being more impoverished than other areas of the city. Versions of such restricted areas have been found across the world, each with their own names, classifications, and groupings of people. The term was originally used for the Venetian Ghetto in Venice, Italy, as early as 1516, to describe the part of the city where Jewish people were restricted to live and thus segregated from other people. However, other early societies may have formed their own versions of the same structure; words resembling ''ghetto'' in meaning appear in Hebrew, Yiddish, Italian, Germanic, Polish, Corsican, Old French, and -4; we might wonder whether there's a point at which it's appropriate to talk of the beginnings of French, that is, when it wa ..., and Latin. During the Holocaust">Latin"> ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tallia Oyando
Talia is a feminine given name. Alternative spellings include: Taliah, Taaliah, Talya, Tahlia, Tahliah, Taliya, Taiyla, Taliea, Taylia, or Talie. Talia (Aramaic: טַלְיָא or טַלְיָה ''Ṭalyāʾ'' "Youth (f.)") is a feminine given name of Aramaic origin, if it can be distinguished from Greek Thalia at all. A folk etymology connects it to Hebrew טל+יה for "dew of God". People with the given name Talia * Talia Balsam, actress * Talia Castellano, internet celebrity and honorary covergirl * Talia Chiarelli, Canadian gymnast * Tylan Grant, actor who formerly went by the name of Talia * Talia Madison, the ring name of female wrestler Jamie Szantyr, more commonly known as Velvet Sky * Tahlia McGrath, Australian cricketer * Talia Shire, actress * FKA Twigs, a musician whose real name is Tahliah Barnett Fictional characters * Queen Talia, in the video game ''Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic'' * Talia, the name of the dormant princess in an early version of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Citizen TV
Citizen TV is a Kenyan free-to-air television channel owned by Royal Media Services. It broadcasts primarily in English and Swahili. The channel was launched in 1999 and relaunched in June 2006. Royal Media Services also owns iNooro TV and Ramogi tv News and programs Citizen TV airs a diverse range of local and international entertainment programs. They include soap opera A soap opera (also called a daytime drama or soap) is a genre of a long-running radio or television Serial (radio and television), serial, frequently characterized by melodrama, ensemble casts, and sentimentality. The term ''soap opera'' originat ...s, along with local content and news. Presenters * Yvone Okwara Matole - Thursday 9 pm * Jeff Koinange KLIVE- Wednesday 9 pm * Olive Burrows - Sunday with Jeff Koinange 9 pm & Saturday at 9 pm * Trevor Ombija - Monday 9 pm *Swaleh Mdoe - Monday 7 am *Mwanahamisi Hamadi - Tuesday 7 pm *Nimrod Taabu - Thursday 7 pm *Jamila Mohamed - Wednesday 7 pm * Lulu H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KUTV
KUTV (channel 2) is a television station in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, affiliated with CBS. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside independent station KJZZ-TV (channel 14) and St. George, Utah, St. George–licensed MyNetworkTV affiliate KMYU (channel 12 or 2.2). KUTV's studios are located on Main Street in the Wells Fargo Center (Salt Lake City), Wells Fargo Center in downtown Salt Lake City, with transmitter on Farnsworth Peak in the Oquirrh Mountains, southwest of Salt Lake City, and a large network of Broadcast relay station#Broadcast translators, translators throughout Utah and in portions of Idaho, Nevada, and Wyoming. KUTV was the third commercial TV station to start in Salt Lake City, beginning broadcasting in September 1954. It was owned by a consortium of the Carman, Wrathall, and Kearns families, who merged their competing bids to start the station, but the main ownership mainstay for the first four decades of its history was the family of George C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenya Television Network
Kenya Television Network (KTN) is a Kenyan free-to-air television network that was launched in March 1990 by Jared Kangwana. It is headquartered at Standard Group Centre, Nairobi. It was the first privately owned free-to-air television network in Africa, and the first to break KBC's monopoly in Kenya. KTN became famous for activist journalism in the 1990s. History After its launch in 1990, KTN rebroadcast programmes from CNN International, MTV Europe and other European, American and Australian television channels, in addition to TV networks from other African states. KTN started out as a pilot project for a 24-hour subscription-television channel in Nairobi and its surroundings. However, plans to scramble its signal were abandoned, and for most of the 1990s, KTN derived its revenue from advertisement and TV production services. Founded by Jared Kangwana, its early success attracted bids for joint ownership from London-based Maxwell Communications, South African MNET, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UB40
UB40 are an English reggae band, formed in December 1978 in Birmingham, England. The band has had more than 50 singles in the UK Singles Chart and has also achieved considerable international success. They have been nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album four times and were nominated for the Brit Award for Best British Group in 1984. UB40 have sold more than 70 million records worldwide. The ethnic make-up of the band's original line-up was diverse, with musicians of English, Welsh, Irish, Jamaican, Scottish, and Yemeni parentage. Their hit singles include their debut track " Food for Thought" and two ''Billboard'' Hot 100 number-one hits, " Red Red Wine" and " Can't Help Falling in Love". Both songs also topped the UK Singles Chart, as did the band's version of " I Got You Babe", recorded with Chrissie Hynde. The band's two most successful albums, '' Labour of Love'' (1983) and '' Promises and Lies'' (1993), both reached number one on the UK Albums C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ras Kimono
Ras Kimono (9 May 1958 – 10 June 2018) was a Nigerian reggae artist whose debut album ''Under Pressure'', led by the single "Rum-Bar Stylée", was a big hit in the Nigerian music scene in 1989. Before he released his solo album, he was in a group called ''The Jastix'' along with Amos McRoy and Majek Fashek. Oseloke Augustine Onwubuya, popularly known as Ras Kimono was born in Ekeleke Elumelu, Delta State, Nigeria, He started out his career as a student of Gbenoba Secondary School Agbor and later as a member of the Jastix Reggae Ital, alongside Majek Fashek, Amos McRoy Jegg and Black Rice Osagie. His music was greatly influenced by the poverty, inequality and hardship he witnessed in his early life. He released his solo debut album ''Under Pressure'' on the Premier Music label in 1989, which propelled him to instant continental stardom. The album had hits such as "Under Pressure", "Natty Get Jail" and the massive hit "Rhumba Style". He later released a string of hit albums, tou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yellowman
Winston Foster , (1956 or 15 January 1959) better known by the stage name Yellowman and also known as King Yellowman, is a Jamaican reggae and dancehall deejay. He first became popular in Jamaica in the 1980s, rising to prominence with a series of singles that established his reputation. Yellowman is considered to be one of the genre's pioneers and has been credited with "almost single-handedly reatingthe coarse, crude and fearlessly direct sound of today's dancehall." Spearheading the first generation of dancehall deejays, he brought the genre to an international audience. Career Winston Foster was abandoned by his parents and grew up in the Maxfield Children's Home and the Catholic orphanage Alpha Boys School in Kingston, the latter known for its musical alumni. He was shunned due to having albinism, which was not typically socially accepted in Jamaica.Campbell, Howard (2018)Gold medal for Yellowman", ''Jamaica Observer'', 20 August 2018. Retrieved 21 August 2018 In the l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shabba Ranks
Rexton Rawlston Fernando Gordon OD (born 17 January 1966), better known by his stage name Shabba Ranks, is a Jamaican dancehall musician. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, he was one of the most popular Jamaican musicians in the world. Throughout his prominence in his home country as a dancehall artist, he gained popularity in North America with his studio album '' Just Reality'' in 1990. He released other studio albums, including '' As Raw as Ever'' and '' X-tra Naked'', which both won a Grammy Award as Best Reggae Album in 1992 and 1993, respectively. He is notoriously popular for " Mr. Loverman" and "Ting-A-Ling", which were globally acclaimed and deemed his signature songs. Early life Shabba Ranks was born in Sturge Town, Saint Ann, Jamaica, and raised in Seaview Gardens, Kingston. His father, Ivan Gordon, was a mason who died in 1990. His mother, Constance "Mama Christie" Christie, remained in Seaview after Shabba's success, feeding the community with money sent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
