Shirati Jazz

In the fifty years that he has worked as a professional musician Daniel Owina Misiani has made hundreds of recordings, which resulted in Kenya in several number one hits. On first hearing the pop music of Shirati Jazz, with its strumming guitars and straightforward basedrum beat, one is reminded of a Kenyan variety of Congo-jazz and soukous from Zaïre. In reality Misiani developed his own style, based on benga-music, since the sixties the dominant dance music of the Luo population around Lake Victoria. In the eighties the first albums of D.O. Misiani and Shirati Jazz appeared in the United States and England. Since then this East African pop band has become world famous.
Source: RASA 2004