Swahili and Congolese Pop in Kenya
The two significant genres of pop music played in Kenya bands include the Congolese sound and Swahili sound. Which both are based on souko...
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two significant genres of pop music played in Kenya bands include the Congolese
sound and Swahili sound. Which both are based on soukous (rumba) which is from
Democratic Republic of the Congo, Swahili music can be described as a much
slower rhythm; however the patterns have had an inclination to appear in the
present years. The genres are not characterized by the language; however
Swahili pop is usually in Swahili or the linked Taito language, which both are
sometime in Lingala or one of the native languages of Kenya.
source of picture: muzikifan.com
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musicians of Congo were mostly popular in performing in Kenya during the 1970s
and 1980s, only losing their normal acceptance in the early 1990s. Orchestra
Virunga was possibly the most renowned and long-running of the Congolese
ensembles. Throughout this era, Swahili artists (many from Tanzania) were
mostly based around the Wanyika bands. This group of completing band started in
1971 when a Tanzanian group called Arusha Jazz came to Kenya, eventually
becoming the Simba Wanyika band. And the band first separate in the year 1971
when many of the group members formed Les Wanyika. And other notable Congolese
groups in Kenya as follows Les Mangelepa and Super Mazembe.
