Sam Chege

Sam Chege is among Africa’s most educated music artists. The leader from the dance music group Sam Chege’s Ultra-Benga, Chege keeps an undergraduate level from the University or college of Nairobi and it is operating toward a master’s level in African general public policy in the University or college of Iowa. Furthermore to his are a musician and bandleader, he offers discussed Kenyan music for a number of publications and continued to spotlight politically oriented problems. Elevated by his grandmother in rural central Kenya, Chege was immersed, as a kid, within the music and dental custom of Kenya’s largest cultural group, the Kikuyu. He documented his debut 1996 record, Kickin’ Kikuyu Style, with road musicians and performers from the College or university of Nairobi. The record featured tracks about suicide and local violence established to a melodic mixture of Swahili taarab, South African kwela, and Congolese soukous over Kenyan benga rhythms.