After Victor, everyone’s mind would be
having questions like “who is next in the line?”. We have had various
music directors this season including the likes of , Eric Musyoka who
led us to “Nameless Curse”, Hermes the Judging panel also dropping in
the academy, MDQ who introduced the rapping culture that saw Hope, Amos
and Josh sing for survival the first time and the later being Victor
Seii the “Harmony master”.
Well,this week’s music director will Eric Wainaina, this season’s principal.
What you need to know about principal Eric
Eric Wainaina seems to have been born to
“speak truth to power”. His middle class up-bringing in Nairobi and
thorough music grounding at the Berklee College of Music don’t
make him the most likely candidate for leading social revolutions, yet
this is precisely what he has done ,time and again, through his music,
right from his career onset in Nairobi. His earliest songs, Daima and Nchi Ya Kitu Kidogo became
anthems sung across the country – both of them powerful indictments of
the authoritarian and ethnically divisive governments that have governed
Kenya since independence. The soft-spoken and fiercely focused musician
has never allowed his attention to be removed from the business of
crafting excellent music – from his earliest days of meticulous harmony
training in the hit a cappella group,5 Alive through
his first engagements with creating a new contemporary sound for Kenyan
music – blending Benga rhythms from the 60s and 70s with western harmony
to produce what is now dubbed Afro Fusion. His two award-winning records, Sawa Sawa(2001) andTwende Twende(2006)
are still amongst the highest selling records in Kenya .His lyrical and
melodic prowess make him a highly sought-after composer in
collaborative projects as well as on-screen music.
I think we should be expecting something too Hot this week.
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