‘I Was Not Elected by Musicians,’ Starehe MP Jaguar Attacks Kenyan Musicians

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Musician turned politician Charles Njagua Kanyi, famously known as Jaguar, has fired a warning to musicians who look for him when they are broke.

In an interview with Mseto East Africa, the outspoken Starehe Member of Parliament (MP) said that the musicians did not elect him and did not send him as their representative, but the people of Starehe did, and that is why he works for them.

“I am an artist, but I did not go to ask for votes as a musician. I was not elected by musicians neither, am I their representative in parliament,” he said.

“I was voted by the Starehe people, and they are the people I represent. There is a promise I gave Starehe people, and I have to fulfill it.”

Further, Jaguar advised musicians that they should invest the money they get from music wisely since many had become penniless after splashing all their money funding luxuriant lifestyles that overwhelmed their pockets.

“I don’t know where artists got the mentality that they have to be helped,” he said.

“Some no longer take music as a business. They don’t even know what they are supposed to do. They misuse their money, and when they mess, they start saying Jaguar is not helping artists.”

“I want to tell them this, I was making over one million, and I know there are artists I was with, and they would make over one million.”

“If you are not investing the money you get from your music, your work is only living large, and driving expensive cars, just know music is like any other business.”

When asked whether he supports Eric Omondi’s bid for 75 percent airplay of Kenyan content by Kenyan media, he says that it is a good strategy, but the artists lack creativity as their projects are almost nonsensical.

“If you look at what Eric brought in parliament, it is something that is already in the law, and I remember mobilising artists to go to CAK sometimes back, but they did not show up,” he said.

“I got tired since I am in politics and I am busy. We want our content to be played 75% but hate me, or like me, our artistes have not given us that percentage to be played.”

He urged artists to up their game if they want adequate circulation of their music.

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