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The Lamu Serenade – Sapra LTD
‘See Lamu, see Paradise’ describes the archipelago of Indian Ocean Islands off Kenya’s northern shores. Each Island has its share of Arabian Nights’ history, often only preserved in song and folk-tale,...
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The Scorpios ‘Yaelhajarok/Yadob Yadob’ Afro7
SCREW RECORD STORE DAY! We would have had AFRO7 01 & 02 singles available by this date, but they didn’t make it. On the positive side, we got this one in our store: The Scorpios A west London based...
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Tanya Ria ‘Do the Smasher/Love You Didn’t Want’ Afro7
Born in Nyeri in 1953, Rachel Wanjiru, aka Tanya Ria singing came at an early age, as a dedicated Christian in the Kikuyu tribe choir practice is day to day routine. It was in 1977 Kenyan music...
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Faadumo Qaasim/Ahmed Sharief Yusuf ‘Majogo/Berflasana’ Afro7
One of the great Somali female vocalists of her time was Faadumo Qaasim, from the Benadiri ethnic group. She passed in 2011 but the composer Said Harawo is to this day still living in Mogadishu and...
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Francis Njoroge ‘DAI’ Turbo
By the time multi-instrumentalist Francis Njoroge released his first solo single, he’d already been recording for more than a decade. An early trace of his musical activity is found on a classic...
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Njoroge Benson ‘Nyinukia’ Odyssey
A studied lawyer, Chris Kariuki took his hobby of music quite seriously, from the early ‘80s right up to his death in 2001. His earliest recordings while barely out of college were with the...
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Loi Toki Tok ‘Amalia/Lakusema Mimi Sina’ Pathé
Love songs, irrespective of lyrical inspiration or language used – are endearing and captivating. They always have a way that connects to audiences with consummate ease. The song Amalia is no...
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Njoroge Benson ‘Nyinukia’ Odyssey
A studied lawyer, Chris Kariuki took his hobby of music quite seriously, from the early ‘80s right up to his death in 2001. His earliest recordings while barely out of college were with the boogie-funk...
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Awengele ‘Awengele/Loving Day’ Akili
Awengele was a self-styled ‘boy band’ comprising four members, all of Luhya origin (West Kenya). Barely out of school, they were all pursuing careers – as an engineer, civil servant, a cartoonist and...
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Loi Toki Tok ‘Chakacha/Mungwana’ Afro7
Loi Toki Tok band started out as a nondescript musical group. But irrefutably, the band’s star scaled the heights and shone brightly on the early 1970s Kenyan capital, Nairobi’s burgeoning live music...
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Mac & Party ‘Harambe/Liverpool’ Afro7
One of the most prolific Kenyan taarab musicians from the 1950s and ‘60s was Yaseen Mohamed. Born in Mombasa in 1922 to a Omani mother and Kenyan father, Yaseen got professionally involved in music...
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Gravity, Matokenya, Jabali ‘Lost in Love/Mrs. Onyango/Folk Song’ Afro7
Gravity – Lost in love Towards the end of the 1970s, which had been a decade of abundance in Kenya’s homegrown music industry, CBS (Columbia) set up a well-equipped studio in Nairobi and started...
View ArticleWe are updating AFRO7.NET!
In June and July AFRO7.net is under heavy constructions, so that means you won’t be able to order anything from our shop. Sorry for the inconvinience, come back after summer. Shop should be flying by...
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The Lamu Serenade – Sapra LTD
‘See Lamu, see Paradise’ describes the archipelago of Indian Ocean Islands off Kenya’s northern shores. Each Island has its share of Arabian Nights’ history, often only preserved in song and folk-tale,...
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Loi Toki Tok Band ‘Leta Ngoma/Jennie’ Pathé
Happy summer! We are have been working hard to update the site to be more mobile friendly and will keep adding more vintage stock throughout the year! Keep coming back in! The intermingling of nifty...
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Rift Valley Brothers ‘Mu Afrika/Uhiki Wa Nduru’ Mu-Africa
This song rekindles memories of the fiery wave of the black consciousness movement that swept across the African diaspora from 1960s through to the ’80s. The Rift Valley Brothers band’s lyrics are...
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Them Mushrooms ‘A Little Love/Akumu Nyar Kisumu’ Polydor
Finally back with a blog post and it’s the release day of the special Them Mushrooms EP. Kenyan musical journalist Emmanuel Mwendwa has written a nice little article about the band, read it here. If...
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Mombasa Roots EP Afro7 Records
When thinking of urban coastal Kenyan musicians whose careers run decades deep, taarab performers may be the first who come to mind. Indeed, taarab taps into a poetic tradition that goes back centuries...
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David Waciuma ‘Devil Go/Jesu Kristo’ Afro7
David Waciuma a BIOGRAPHY – he was born in 1945 in Naaro Village, Kandara Muranga County. He went to Naaro / Kirunguru Primary Schools where he did his KAPE. He then proceeds to the Duke of Clocester...
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Mombasa ‘Vikings Kibe Kibe/Mama Matotoya’ Afro7
Located on Nyali Beach, south of Mombasa city lies Mombasa Reef Hotel, maybe the grandest of all the classic Kenyan hotels, run and managed by the same family since the mid-seventies. Catering...
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