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Blinky, the Kenyan bandleader whose crew shaped ‘cool’ Nairobi music scene

Dan Muli, Billy Selanga and Jim Chuchu perform at Just A Band's, 82, album launch concert at the GoDown Arts Centre in Nairobi on 17th October 2009 [Courtesy of Mwangi Kirubi]

Nairobi, Kenya  – In April 2022, Kenyan alternative music collective Just A Band released a comeback single after a six-year hiatus and 12 years after it first shot into national reckoning.

The return came as Kenya’s music identity was undergoing an evolution; after the COVID-19 pandemic, alternative music found new roots among listeners eager to escape contemporary African music to sounds they considered more reflective of a world turned upside down.

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