STL GETS TOP NODS IN CHANNEL O MUSIC VIDEO AWARDS CATEGORIES

It’s down to the wire for Africa’s hottest artists and music videos with the just-released list of nominees in the 2011 Channel O Music Video Awards! Artists from Angola, Ghana, Mozambique, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda and Namibia are all in the running for this year’s awards.
This time around, the only Original.African awards feature multiple artists with two or more nods - making it an

LIZ OGUMBO ON STUDIO 53

Kenyan ex-model and designer Liz Ogumbo who seems to have relocated to South Africa will be featured on Studio 53.The singer who headlined one of the eviction shows for the ongoing voyeuristic Big Brother All Stars, will talk about her change of career from a qualified computer scientist to trotting the globe as a model, gracing catwalks from Paris to New York.Liz came back home from the US in

NAMELESS FEATURES IN SONY WORLD CUP ALBUM

Leading Kenyan artiste Nameless is among top African and American musicians selected by Sony to feature in a Fifa World Cup album whose sale will be used for charity. Listen Up! The Official 2010 Fifa World Cup album was released on June 1 and features original songs from today’s hottest artistes collaborating with African writers, producers and performers in an effort to showcase the vast

THE OFFICIAL MAMA PERFORMERS

Nairobi, 5 August 2009: MTV and Zain have set the tone for the 2009 MTV Africa Music Awards with Zain, revealing news of the first performers signed to appear at the glittering Awards ceremony. Guaranteed to set the stage alight at the Kasarani Indoor Stadium, Nairobi on 10 October and representing the best urban music on the continent will be 2008 Best Female winner, Wahu, South Africa’s

South African jazz singer for Kenyan jazz festival

One of the hottest jazz singers in South Africa, Lira will be in Nairobi on Saturday to perform with Eric Wainaina and Valerie Kimani at a Jazz festival dubbed South Meets East to be staged at the Nairobi National Museum starting at 6pm. Lira, born Lira Molapo is not new to the Kenya stage as she was a hit when she performed last November during the Black Peacock Ball, an event organized to raise