Meet The Kenyan Behind Macklemore’s Smash hit “Thrift Shop”!

Everyone knows the track “Thrift Shop” by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis aye? But what do you notice when you listen to the track and to another Macklemore tracks? Let me allow you to listen to the track before you respond

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I trust that the trumpet is what you noticed about the track aye? It’s prominent not just in this track but in almost all his songs. And that is the link Macklemore has to Kenya. The trumpeter. His name is Owuor Arunga. And this is him:

A lad named Innocent Wasike set me on the scent of Owuor and I found him. Here he is with Macklemore as they get down to some jazz:

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And here he is on his own:

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