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Thu, 04 Mar 2010 |
NAIROBI - Jamaican Gospel reggae artist Stitchie came to Nairobi for a one-day concert at the Mavuno Dome on 14th February 2010. Organized by 12 Entertainment, the show also featured artists DNA and Rufftone among others. Stitchie also stopped by Family Media's Radio 316 and Family TV for interviews. Check out a few pics from the show.
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Wed, 03 Mar 2010 |
NAIROBI - Gospel artist Jimmie Gait is set to launch his own band on 14th March 2010 at the Stima Club along Thika Road. This will be through what he calls the Make It or Make It campaign. He recently landed a deal with Coca-cola in addition to the one he had with KPLC where he was the face of their Mulika Mwizi campaign. Several artists are set to perform during the event. Check out the poster here.
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Tue, 16 Feb 2010 |
WASHINGTON, DC - Kenya's Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka was in Washington last week for the National Prayer Breakfast among other issues. He sat down for an interview with Steve Clemons from the New America Foundation. His response to questions was atticulate and got me thinking, could he be the next president? If only he gets a very good campaign mechanism and mobilizes the youth.
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Tue, 02 Feb 2010 |
Astar is giving away lots of music for free download this week. This includes his entire debut Album "The Light" as well as other singles he has released since then. In a campaign he dubs Cleaning the Airwaves, he seeks to do just that on radio and TV stations. Remember you have only this week to download the free music on the official MWAPI page http://www.kenyangospel.com/mwapi
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Sun, 31 Jan 2010 |
Mary Mary, Donnie McClurkin, Israel Houghton and Third Day were some of the big winners of the 52nd Grammy Awards held on Sunday 31st January 2010 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Mary Mary scooped Best Gospel Song while Donnie won in the Best Gospel Performance category. Third Day took the Best Rock or Rap Album beating Da T.R.U.T.H and The Tonic, Decypher Down and rock band Red. Israel walked away with Best Pop / Contemporary Gospel Album. Mary Mary also kept their fans updated as they tweeted about the event and sent out exclusive pics to their Twitter and Facebook fans. Check out the other winners in the Gospel category.
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Thu, 28 Jan 2010 |
Check out new video highlights on what went down during the Talanta Awards on 29th November 2009 in Atlanta, GA including artist interviews. The video was made by Andrew Kathuri (Voice of Diaspora) and Christ Harvesters Media team. Incase you missed out, check out the recap, pics and list of winners on this page.
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Mon, 25 Jan 2010 |
We have done some major renovations to our Videos page and put up a whole new player. On top of that, we have uploaded dozens of new videos from our vault. These include the new one by Chit Chat called I La La Like It as well as Cubanotics, BMF, Ba'Mdogo, Juliani and the new one by M.O.G called Someday among others. We have made sure that all the videos stream in one player and one can easily select another video and play it instantly. You can also maximize the size of the video to fit your whole screen together with the playlist without leaving the site. The playlist has over 130 music videos. We still have numerous videos that we are still yet to upload so look out for new videos all week long.
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Sat, 23 Jan 2010 |
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Touched by the Haiti earthquake tragedy, Kirk Franklin assembled over 150 gospel artists to record a song called "Are You Listening: A Love Song for Haiti" to raise funds for those in Haiti. Some of the artists include Mary Mary, Yolanda Adams, Donnie McClurkin, Jeremy Camp, BeBe and CeCe Winans, Fred Hammond, J Moss, Marvin Sapp, Karen Clark Sheard, Kiera "KiKi" Sheard, Shirley Caesar, Dorinda Clark Cole, Natalie Grant, Tamela & David Mann, Bishop Paul S. Morton, Smokie Norful, Marvin Winans, Nicole C. Mullen and Micah Stampley among others. How did this come about? Kirk sent emails and texts to artists to record what he dubbed as the gospel community's answer to "We Are the World." Kirk then contacted Don Jackson, executive producer of The Stellar Awards, to request that GMC (Gospel Music Channel) send cameras and crews to capture the historic recording event (most artists were in town for the awards). GMC agreed and did the official music video below. The song is now available on verityrecords.com and will be on iTunes after Jan 30.
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Fri, 22 Jan 2010 |
Jamaican gospel reggae artist Stitchie will be in Nairobi for a one-day-only show on Friday 14th Feb 2010. The popular musician, who once did secular before going gospel in the early 2000s is known for his hits "Solid Rock", "Fast and Pray" and "Gospel Reggae" among others. He recently collaborated with Elephant Man (secular) on the track "What A Mighty God". Read more about the collabo here. The show's venue is yet to be confirmed but tickets will be going for Kshs 200 while kids get a Kshs100 discount.
View poster on our events page and check back for venue details or any changes.
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Mon, 18 Jan 2010 |
DJ Fresh has relaunched his site www.djfresh.org The new site features hour long mixshows of his Christian radio show that is mainly rap and reggae with a blend of R&B. He also has a blog page where he writes about his opinions on what is shapping the gospel industry. There is a Artist menu where he features real-time tweets from various gospel artists such as Kirk Franklin, Mary Mary and Lecrae among others. Lastly, there is the news section where he has content from top gospel sites around the web. Check it out.
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Mon, 18 Jan 2010 |
Gospel Music's biggest event is the Stellar Awards and they went down this past weekend in Nashville. Mary Mary and Hezekiah Walker were the big winners of the night. Da T.R.U.T.H gave Lecrae an upset by bagging the Best Rap / Hip Hop album. Check out the complete list of winners here. Crystal Aiken, winner of BET's Sunday Best (show) also bagged a few awards. Speaking of Sunday Best, Kirk Franklin, who is host of the show missed the awards because he is in Nigeria for auditions of the show. Be on the look-out, there may just be an audition coming to Nairobi in future seasons. In general, the show is like Tusker Project Fame or Idol.
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Mon, 18 Jan 2010 |
So we don't know whether getting the live video feed for TSO 2009 made our readers more happy or just plain angry with us. Well, as you may be aware, we streamed TSO live from Nairobi on 31st Dec 2009 but it went down with alot of hitches. We had 3 back-up plans. Firstly, we were to get the video feed from Citizen's OB van and that did not happen. Secondly, we had a video camera but the connections to the computer did not work in time leaving back up plan number 3 which was to stream using a laptop placed at the back of the hall (yes, that was a laptop's webcam, lol). Anyway, the sound (on the feed) was terrible but the internet connection was not as bad as we thought. We will definitely up our game next time.
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