I always find this line of thought interesting because I’ve never seen or heard any of the new-age musicians asking people to listen to the songs that they churn out because they have content.<\/p>\n
You and I know that these songs are purely for entertainment, they are meant to put you in a good mood.<\/p>\n
As such, it would be wrong to claim that Kenyan music lacks content because most of the popular songs in the country are from new-age artists.<\/p>\n The truth is that there is no shortage of good music in Kenya. If you are the kind of person who looks for a message in a song, then you’ll be spoilt for choice.<\/p>\n If, for instance, the new Kenyan sound does not appeal to you then you can listen to the likes of Sarabi who make conscious music.<\/p>\n Better still, you can identify another genre that you easily resonate with and let those of us who enjoy the new Kenyan sound be.<\/p>\n We have come far as a country, musically speaking, and we have the new-age artists to thank for the strides that we’ve made.<\/p>\n Gone are the days when local clubs, radio and TV stations would play one Nigerian song after the other and in my opinion that\u2019s a huge win.<\/p>\n The focus has really shifted to local musicians, especially the new-age artists so much so that you could say that they helped in killing Nigerian music.<\/p>\n So, instead of castigating them every chance you get, support them!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Every so often, you’ll hear someone rubbishing the new crop of local musicians and explaining that they lack content. Also read: New-age musicians have killed Nigerian music and that\u2019s a huge win I always find this line of thought interesting because I’ve never seen or heard any of the new-age musicians asking people to listen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6062,"featured_media":95186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[310],"tags":[106318,99078,104119,104548,96314,103136],"class_list":["post-110017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-34-gvng-news","tag-boondocks-gang-news","tag-ethic-entertainment-news","tag-new-age-kenyan-musicians-news","tag-ochunglo-family-news","tag-rico-gang-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6062"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110021,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110017\/revisions\/110021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Ethic](\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/06\/Capture-6.png\")
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