Legendary singer and Nyatiti player Ayub Ogada recorded with English singer and reality show judge Gary Barlow during his short Kenyan visit. Gary was in Kenya looking for a sound to incorporate in a song that will be performed outside Buckingham Palace on June 4 at the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Concert. Ayub is famed for his hit Kothbiro that was used as a soundtrack for the movie Constant Gardner. Gary spoke to UK Radio 2 Breakfast Show. He said of the Kenyan visit, “We started at Treetops which interestingly is where the queen started her reign, she found out she was going to be queen right here. So I came here for a bit of inspiration to try and start and finish the lyric."
The X Factor judge recorded a Maasai dance and song, and “then hooked up with a professional musician Ayub who plays the Nyatiti; it is a really beautiful sound.” Ayub was recommended to Gary by Singing Wells Project which is a collaboration between a small record label in London, Abubilla Music, and Nairobi’s Ketebul Music. It’s an initiative which aims to record, celebrate and share the traditional music of Kenya.
In their website, the organisation wrote: “We have to admit to playing a small but hopefully significant part in Gary’s search for talented Kenyan musicians. We were asked by Gary’s production team for some advice about Kenyan music and our very own Andy Patterson suggested Ayub Ogada who we met in 2011 just as Singing Wells was launched.”
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