You’re the biggest letdown-Sauti Sol’s BIEN tells off comedian JALANG’O over struggling Kenya music industry.

DAILY POST: You’re the biggest letdown-Sauti Sol’s BIEN tells off comedian JALANG’O over struggling Kenya music industry. Editor's Choice, Entertainment News, Gossip and Drama, Lifestyle 06:51 Friday, March 08, 2019 –The debate on who is to blame for the struggling music industry in Kenya may have cooled off in recent times but it seems it is not yet over.
Aggrieved Kenyans musicians are blaming radio presenters for not giving local talent enough airplay while giving Nigerian artistes heavy rotation. Jalang’o, who is one of the most popular radio presenters currently in 254, stirred a storm when he accused Sauti Sol, arguably the most successful music act in Kenya, of being selfish. The comedian turned radio host slammed Sauti Sol for not extending helping hand to struggling musicians. However, Sauti Sol vocalist Bien Baraza has fired back stating that they have been working tirelessly behind the scenes on how they can help the industry but the Comedian never bothered to investigate.

Speaking during an interview, Bien said: “Jalang’o is the biggest letdown but that’s a story for another day. I’m a letdown if i see a brother putting down another brother. “He’s my guy and he knows the plans that have been underway. I would expect him to have called me first instead of politicizing the whole thing. I got really pissed and actually went off on him on that,” He added: “Polycarp is doing a copyright course at Harvard. Just all these things. I launched Kenya writers association, those are the things he (jalang’o) didn’t know we were doing in the background so that we can have a better dispensation for our artistes.” On the same breath, Bein vowed that their new record label Sol Generations will show their hard work. “Labels have been started but have fallen for a reason because people are not putting organisational structure behind them. And so we’ve been doing for the last year for our fans have not been just chilling and watching Kenyan music crumble. “No. We’ve been taking our time to approach this animal in a different way. To my brother Jalang’o what I would say is meza dawa yako. And if i go wrong, don’t fix your brother’s collar in public,”

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