Lele Ngoma To Perform At Choices This Thursday.

Last year, I had a brief stint as a singer, and part of the guys I’d rehearse with regularly was Lele. They were responsible for one of the best thing I did in 2012, singing for bed-ridden patients at Mater hospital. Interesting huh?

Hence it gives me great pleasure to write about this. They shall be live at Choices this Thursday. Remember last week, Winyo and Nina Ogot gave an amazing performance! Read about that here. According to the event bio that Choices posted in the event, “Lele Ngoma is an eclectic Urban AfroSoul band. They blend a variety of styles from traditional to contemporary. The band, whose name is Swahili for the height of music has set out to create a unique sound that preserves the rich cultural heritage of Kenya.

Having started out with jamming sessions at the Alliance Française, they were partly iinspired by Afrofusion artistes like Eric Wainaina, Sautisol, Winyo as well as international acts like Lokua Kanza and Hugh Masekhela.

The 7-piece band has performed at, among other events, the World Peace Event, Drum Café 2010 Kenya edition, Kinanda Festival, featured in Nairobi’s Finest-band edition and have been part of the Art in Medicine programme at the Mater Hospital for 2 years now. Their sound has been described as the ‘true urban sound’.” I don’t need to add to this bio, maybe the video below will paint a better mental image than my writing ever could.

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