This week has been somewhat a roller coaster especially after Khaligraph Jones instigated one of the most intriguing and important debates that most musicians, radio presenters and media personalities were shying away from.
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Khaligraph Jones brought about the talking of an important issue of Kenyan music getting played locally other than media playing contents from other countries.
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Comedian and radio host, Jalang’o has been vocal about this online debate and he has come forth more than once to express his agenda of supporting Kenyan music a 100% even though he might have been misunderstood in one way or the other via his social media postings.
Welcoming back Khaligraph Jones -who came back from Nigeria where he went to shoot the music video for his song ‘Gwala’ with Nigerian Ycee and also happened to record a single with Ice Prince Zamani whilst there- comedian, host, businessman and radio presenter, Jalang’o he opened up about having a meeting between the DJs, radio presenters and artistes at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre courtesy of Nana Gecaga who is the Chief Executive Officer of said building that is owned by the government of Kenya, which hosts conferences, concerts and exhibitions.
“#PlayKenyaBuyKenya Welcome back @khaligraph_jones and thanks for starting this debate! Meanwhile am here still taking the heat…it’s been too hot for me but you know me I stand for my word and I’ll take the heat until we all agree and finally play Kenya Music 100 % , as we speak we are already organizing a meeting between Djs, presenters and Artists and the music research teams from different media houses and thank to @nanawanjikugecaga she has agreed to host us at KICC.”
@jalangoo said in part on Instagram
Jalang’o took a little detour to expound on something that allegedly most people didn’t know about the local radio stations and their music of choice that they play that has been working for them for the longest time.
“Today post is also to enlighten us on something most of us don’t know. Each and every radio station has its identity and what they stand for and what they want to be known for!
Kiss 100 is the Kenya No. 1 hit station so they will be mostly be playing hits only and songs that are already out there and rarely will you hear them try to play new songs that are not hits!
NRG RADIO is the beat of the moment! So what’s hot at the moment is what counts.
Milele is the home of African hits so if it’s hot in Africa it will be played
Xfm is the home of Rock so they will not change from Rock to play Kenyan Music that is not Rock
1fm is purely Kenyan that’s why all day all time play Kenyan songs
Classic fm is home of classic hits so on and so forth!” he explained further on his lengthy post.
Jalang’o continued to say how many different owners had different target audience when they started to set up their radio and television station/s targeting specific audience that they were sure it would make money for them.
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He wrote: “What I am saying that before we also push we must also know that the different business owners had different target audience to make for them money. So once or twice will you hear a station move from their identity….Meanwhile main stream media…Radio..Tv…are all in their death beds…social media is taking over so depending on traditional media only will kill your career. ”
Jalang’o also called out Nyashinski and Sauti Sol on a challenge since they are artistes on the upper echelon in the country to lift up the up and coming artistes in the music industry so that everybody will have a role to play in making Kenya again by playing Kenyan music alone and nothing else, so that our artistes will enjoy the shine that comes with their content getting played in their own country.
“Also Top Artists must now help and lift UPCOMING artists..Sautisol…Nyash…it’s a challenge, I don’t know what you are doing uko chini ya maji in support of local artists! Can you imagine if you took just one or two artists and held them to the last minute? Last Wasafi Festival nobody cared about Diamond everyone wanted to listen to Mbooso…support is just not by playing but a 360 support!” he added as posted on his Instagram account.
