{"id":152384,"date":"2020-11-19T16:03:02","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T13:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.com\/ke\/?p=152384"},"modified":"2020-11-20T17:36:26","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T14:36:26","slug":"artist-spotlight-bonta-fast-rising-kenyan-musician-who-is-making-a-mark-in-the-local-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/artist-spotlight-bonta-fast-rising-kenyan-musician-who-is-making-a-mark-in-the-local-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: Bonta, fast-rising Kenyan musician who is making a mark in the local industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you love good music then perhaps you should\u00a0 get to know an artist by the name John Kimata, popularly known as Bonta. He makes exceptional music and I&#8217;m not even exaggerating.<\/p>\n<p>He started doing music when he was in primary school and his love for it has continued to grow over the years into a career.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_152391\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-152391\" style=\"width: 666px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-152391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2020-11-19-at-3.18.46-AM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"666\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2020-11-19-at-3.18.46-AM.jpeg 666w, https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2020-11-19-at-3.18.46-AM-200x300.jpeg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 666px) 100vw, 666px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-152391\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bonta<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When he was younger, he would listen to the likes of Kenrazy, Nonini, Jua Cali etc. and those are the people who&#8217;ve influenced his music to this day.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking exclusively to <em>Ghafla<\/em>, Bonta, who is a radio presenter and event organizer, revealed that he started doing music professionally in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>To date, he has recorded about 7 videos with the latest jam being <em>Limenoga<\/em> which has been ruling the airwaves since it was released a few days ago.<\/p>\n<p><em>Limenoga\u00a0<\/em>is a love ballad. Bonta talks about this lady that he just can&#8217;t get enough of and is ready to do anything just to make her his and settle down with her.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_152390\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-152390\" style=\"width: 664px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-152390\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2020-11-19-at-3.18.40-AM-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"664\" height=\"885\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2020-11-19-at-3.18.40-AM-1.jpeg 750w, https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2020-11-19-at-3.18.40-AM-1-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 664px) 100vw, 664px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-152390\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bonta<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If you ask me, I&#8217;ll tell you that it&#8217;s a dope jam. Everything is on point. From the lyricism, video, beat, location, styling, you name it. It&#8217;s one of those tracks that will make you hit the replay button a couple of times.<\/p>\n<p>Bonta says that he was just vibing in the studio creating another song but in the process his producer touched certain chords and that is how <em>Limenoga<\/em> was born.<\/p>\n<p>He owns a recording studio and his dream is that it will be a very big record label in the next 5 years competing with the likes of Wasafi Records.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7V0pOs5ELtc&amp;feature=youtu.be\">Watch<\/a> <em>Limenoga<\/em> below and tell us what you think.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Official Bonta  -  Lime Noga (official music video)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7V0pOs5ELtc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you love good music then perhaps you should\u00a0 get to know an artist by the name John Kimata, popularly known as Bonta. He makes exceptional music and I&#8217;m not even exaggerating. He started doing music when he was in primary school and his love for it has continued to grow over the years into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6070,"featured_media":152389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[310],"tags":[134635,134633,134634],"class_list":["post-152384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-bonta-kenya-news","tag-bonta-news","tag-limenoga-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152384","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\/6070"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152384"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152414,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152384\/revisions\/152414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}