GUINNESS TAKES THE GAME TO KISUMU CITY

The second Guinness Football Challenge recruitment drive was hosted at the KBL grounds in Kisumu, where hundreds of Guinness lovers attended with people streaming into the venue from as early as 5 pm.The first recruitment drive was held in Meru on 28 th August which saw the top fifteen teams short-listed to appear on the adrenalin-filled Guinness Football Challenge TV game show.Set in an

NAMELESS AND SAUTI SOL GET AMA NODS

Three Kenyan artistes have been nominated for the UK based African Music Awards (AMA) that will be held Friday October 15th 2010 at the Wembley Arena, London. Nameless, Sauti Sol and Amani have all placed in highly competitive categories against other African acts. Amani got one nod in the Best Female Artist a category Wahu won last year.Sauti Sol has been nominated for Best New Artist/Group and

KENYAN STARS RECORD SONG FOR THE PROMULGATION

On Friday, August 27, Kenya will be celebrating the signing of the new constitution, a milestone in our history.On the day, a number of Kenyan celebrities will also be part of the promulgation celebrations at Uhuru Park, together with other choirs and traditional dancers.The celebs who include Jua Cali, Nameless, Amani, Eric Wainaina, Suzanna Owiyo, among others have recorded a song specifically

KIDUM PLANS TO LAUNCH HIS 5-COUNTRY ALBUM

Burundian born singer and drummer Kidum is planning on ‘a grande launch’ for his fourth album, Haturudi Nyuma.Speaking to Hot Secrets, Kidum said he is in talks with his distributors, SoundAfrica on the logistics of the launch.He describes his album as “one that brings five countries together” as it includes collaborations with big acts from Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda.“I wanted to have an

NAMELESS FEATURED AFRICAN COMPILATION SONY ALBUM

A Sony music album featuring top African acts has been released and Kenya’s Nameless is one of the acts featured in it.The album, Hello Afrika, inspired by the 2010 FIFA World Cup is yet to hit the Kenyan market though the double-disc had a released date of May 31.Nameless’s single Coming Home is slotted as the third track in the album. The song is about an African player who must leave his

NAMELESS TAKES RESPONSIBLE DRINKING CAMPAIGN ONLINE

EABL’s responsible drinking (RD) ambassador Nameless has taken his campaign online. The mobile site, www.jitolee.co.ke was launched to engage consumers of the EABL products to learn more about responsible drinking. The Jitolee initiative chose the new direction in communicating the RD agenda aims at providing ready and quick information to consumers through one of the most used tools - the mobile

MAKE A CHOICE ARTISTES TELL YOUTH

They call themselves Kenyans for Change. They have united to record a song to urge the youth to read the proposed constitution then make an informed choice.Headed by Achieng Abura as the chairlady, Kenyans for Change, 2010 (K4C10) the group of artistes will be touring the country in a series of concerts.To further enforce their stand the group launched their theme song dubbed Amua on Thursday,

NAMELESS AUCTIONS SUN GLASSES FOR SH60,000

Singer Nameless's contribution to the just concluded fundraising for the Jose Memorial Haemophilia Society-Kenya were merely a pair of sunglasses.However, the pair of glasses fetched a whopping Sh60,000 after it was auctioned at the second annual fund raising dinner at the Carnivore on Saturday.Nameless told the crowd that the shades were his good luck charm as he wore them at the MAMAs where he

THE NEW NAMELESS AND MATISYAHU JOINT

Listen to Matisyahu featuring Nameless in the single One Day. The single is off the Sony Album recorded as the Official 2010 FIFA World Cup Album titled Listen Up! The 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 talents within Africa. Proceeds from the album

NAMELESS IS BARMAN IN NEW BEER CAMPAIGN

Nameless took on a role as the barman at EABL’s Club 2010 during the unveiling of a new responsible drinking campaign last Friday. The Salari hitmaker, who is the face of EABL’s Responsible Drinking campaigns, officiated over the ‘Space-it-out’ drive by serving the patrons at Club 2010 with drinks, as well as water.The new campaign will see EABL-commissioned scouts storming selected pubs and

NAMELESS TO AUCTION HIS FASHION ACCESSORIES FOR CHARITY

Nameless will be donating something near and dear to him for charity. He is the guest artiste at the Music4Haemophilia’s Second Annual Fundraising Dinner on June 26 at the Carnivore and he will be auctioning his trademark celebrity accessories. According to the fundraising programme, Nameless’ sunglasses will go for a starting price of Sh15 000 while his durag will go for Sh5000.Also up for

NAMELESS REWARDS HIMSELF WITH NEW RIDE

The Salari star, is getting paid. In addition he has bragging rights to featuring in the official World Cup album recorded by Sony and is currently the EABL’s Responsible Drinking Campaign ambassador.To crown his successful 2009, Nameless rewarded himself with a silver BMW X5 early this year. He said he has been working hard and he wanted to “reward himself”. The singer, famed for his song

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

WHO IS THE KING OF RNB? NAMELESS OR DARE?

It's Kenya versus Nigeria this Friday on Channel O, as the urbane music station searches for Africa's King of RnB. Will it be Nameless or Dare?According to a release on the Channel's website, they are two smooth brothas from different ends of the earth who bring chills to hordes of women. What brings them together, apart from their dashing good looks, is their shared love of RnB music but who is

WAHU REPLIES TO ABBAS’ DISS ON MTV MAMAs FAVOURING HER AND NAMELESS

Rapper Abbas has been spewing vitriol saying Nameless and Wahu were favoured by the just concluded MTV Africa Music Awards with Zain.Abbas raised questions on why members of the same family got nominated and won awards two years running. This is not the first time the rapper has directed his hate at another artiste. Last year he ranted about Jua Cali performing on the same stage with rap maestro

WAHU DOESN’T MIND HABIDA COLLABOING WITH HUBBY NAMELESS

Mtv Africa Music Award winner Nameless featured the very hot female act Habida in his single Sunshine.Like every other person, one would like to know how does his wife, Wahu handle this collaboration to the smashing damsel. Click here if you don't know her. Laughing, the MAMA award winner for Best Female Artiste Wahu said, “That is hilarious and a lot of people ask me that.”Wahu and Nameless have

KENYAN RAPPERS CAMEO ON MTV SERIES

Ten Kenyan rappers will be part of the MTV Staying Alive Ignite TV series dubbed Shuga. The three from P Unit, Nonini, Nameless, Juliani, Jimmy Gait, Madtraxx and DJ Adrian have all made cameo appearances in the drama series.P Unit and Nonini play friends of lead character Skola (played by David Omwange), appearing in scenes where they hang out in a parking lot with Skola, his buddy Kennedy (

SUNSHINE LADY HABIDA STOPS BAR SCUFFLE

Habida, the hottie who has collaboed with Nameless in the hit song Sunshine stopped a bar brawl a week ago. The incident took place at Alfajiri on Denis Pritt Road where The Terminal, a house event was been hosted. Habida said, “I don’t know the guy, but he was upset at the photographer who was taking his photos. The guest shoved the photographer twice that is when I intervened and tried to stop

CHAMELEONE’S SMALL BRO STEALS NAMELESS’ JUJU

Chameleone’s brother Weasel and his bandmate Radio are about to release a song that is said to be ‘quiet similar to Nameless’ Juju’ and the two plan on titling it ‘Ameni Pa Juju’. Anyhow, when I caught up with Nameless at the recent Guinness 250 worldwide celebrations in Meru, the Sinzia Star still hadn’t heard the said song. “I was in Uganda a few days ago and I heard it. However I cannot

Wahu and Nameless Working On Collabo

Kenya’s first celebrity couple Mr and Mrs Nameless or if you like Wahu and Namelessare working on a collabo. The two are working on an official duet that will be featured on Wahu’s forthcoming album. “It’s true that we are working on something. We will record two or three songs and release the best out of them. We are currently working with producer R Kay but we will try and see other producers.