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Benga music, the Glossary

Benga is a genre of Kenyan popular music.^[1]

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African popular music
Kenyan styles of music
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Tanzanian styles of music

Bass guitar

The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family.

Capital city

A capital city or just capital is the municipality holding primary status in a country, state, province, department, or other subnational division, usually as its seat of the government.

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Chandarana Records

Chandarana Records is a record company from Kericho, Kenya.

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Cuba

Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country, comprising the island of Cuba, Isla de la Juventud, archipelagos, 4,195 islands and cays surrounding the main island.

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Dance music

Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing.

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Daniel Owino Misiani

Daniel Owino Misiani (22 February 1940 – 17 May 2006) was a Tanzanian-born musician based in Kenya, where he led the Shirati Jazz collective.

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Dola Kabarry

Kevin Omondi Migot (born c. 1982) better known for his stage name Dola Kabarry is a benga musician from Kenya.

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Extra Golden is a musical ensemble founded by two Americans and one Kenyan.

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Fingerstyle guitar is the technique of playing the guitar or bass guitar by plucking the strings directly with the fingertips, fingernails, or picks attached to fingers, as opposed to flatpicking (plucking individual notes with a single plectrum, commonly called a "pick").

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George Ramogi

George Ramogi (1945–1997) was a Kenyan musician, who empowered the traditional luo benga and rumba genre of music.

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Kamba people

The Kamba or Akamba (sometimes called Wakamba) people are a Bantu ethnic group who predominantly live in the area of Kenya stretching from Nairobi to Tsavo and north to Embu, in the southern part of the former Eastern Province.

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Kenya

Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya (Jamhuri ya Kenya), is a country in East Africa.

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Kenya Broadcasting Corporation

Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC) is the state-run media organisation of Kenya.

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Kwela

Kwela is a pennywhistle-based street music from southern Africa with jazzy underpinnings and a distinctive, skiffle-like beat.

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Luo peoples

The Luo (also spelled Lwo) are several ethnically and linguistically related Nilotic ethnic groups that inhabit an area ranging from Egypt and Sudan to South Sudan and Ethiopia, through Northern Uganda and eastern Congo (DRC), into western Kenya, and the Mara Region of Tanzania.

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Lyre

The lyre is a stringed musical instrument that is classified by Hornbostel–Sachs as a member of the lute family of instruments.

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Melody

A melody, also tune, voice or line, is a linear succession of musical tones that the listener perceives as a single entity.

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Musa Juma

Musa Juma Mumbo (December 6, 1968Daily Nation, March 18, 2011: – March 15, 2011) was a rumba and Benga musician from Kenya.

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Music genre

A music genre is a conventional category that identifies some pieces of music as belonging to a shared tradition or set of conventions.

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Muziki wa dansi

Muziki wa dansi (in Swahili: "dance music"), or simply dansi, is a Tanzanian music genre, derivative of Congolese soukous and Congolese rumba. Benga music and Muziki wa dansi are Tanzanian styles of music.

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Nairobi

Nairobi is the capital and largest city of Kenya.

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Ngoma music

Ngoma (also ng'oma or ing'oma) is a Bantu term with many connotations that encompasses music, dance, and instruments. Benga music and Ngoma music are Kenyan styles of music and Tanzanian styles of music.

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Nyatiti

The nyatiti is a five to eight-stringed plucked bowl yoke lute from Kenya.

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Okatch Biggy

Elly Mathayo Okatch, better known as Okatch Biggy (1954–1997) was a Kenyan benga musician.

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Popular music

Popular music is music with wide appeal that is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry.

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Princess Jully

Princess Jully (real name Lilian Auma Aoka) is a benga musician from Kenya.

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Radio broadcasting

Radio broadcasting is the broadcasting of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience.

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Singeli

Singeli or sometimes called Sengeli is a Tanzanian music genre that originated with the Zaramo in the Mtogole neighborhood of the Tandale ward in Kinondoni District of Dar es Salaam Region around the mid-2000s. Benga music and Singeli are Swahili stubs, Tanzania stubs and Tanzanian styles of music.

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Soukous

Soukous (from French secousse, "shock, jolt, jerk") is a genre of dance music originating from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire) and the Republic of the Congo (formerly French Congo). Benga music and Soukous are African popular music.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benga_music