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They call themselves Kenyans for Change. They have united to record a song to urge the youth to read the proposed constitution then make an informed choice.
Headed by Achieng Abura as the chairlady, Kenyans for Change, 2010 (K4C10) the group of artistes will be touring the country in a series of concerts.
To further enforce their stand the group launched their theme song dubbed Amua on Thursday, July 1 at The Alliance Francaise.
It features Sauti Sol, Juliani and Suzanna Owiyo while the video also features cameos of other personalities such as Nonini, Dennis Oliech amongst others. The theme song is for the referendum in August 4, for the Committee of Experts civic education campaign.

SAUTI SOL AND STAN’S EUROPEAN TOUR 2010

Kenyan boy band Sauti Sol and Stan have released the tour dates for their European tour 2010.
The sophomore album of Sauti Sol is going to be recorded in Europe during the tour and the scheduled release date is set for December 12 2010.
May, 30 2010 – Rotterdam, Netherlands
June, 2 2010 – Leksand, Sweden
June, 5 2010 – Rotondes, Luxembourg
June, 6 2010 – Essen, Belgium
June, 19 2010 – Hoogeveen, Holland
June, 24 2010 – Amsterdam, Netherlands
June, 26 2010 – Amsterdam, Netherlands
June, 27 2010 – Haarlem, Netherlands
June, 30 2010 – Amsterdam, Netherlands
July, 4 2010 – Dordrecht, Netherlands
July, 7 2010 – Gothenburg, Sweden
July, 10 2010 – Hertme, Netherlands
July, 15 2010 – Stockholm, Sweden
July, 18 2010 – Ljmuiden, Netherlands
July, 22 2010 – Oslo, Norway
July, 24 2010 – Copenhagen, Denmark
July, 27 2010 – Stöde, Sweden
July, 28 2010 – Gotland, Sweden
August, 2 2010 – Paris, France
August, 8 2010 – Halmstad, Sweden
August, 13 2010 – Gothenburg, Sweden
Note. More dates to be added.
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SAUTI SOL AND JUST A BAND WIN ONLINE AWARDS

Urban boy bands Just a Band and Sauti Sol won awards at the very first Africa online music award ceremony. The two boy bands scooped prestigious tittles at the Museke Online Africa Music Awards (MOAMAs) on Sunday when the list was finally released after months of online voting.
Sauti tied with Nigerian brodas P Square for the award of Best Group, while Just a Band scooped the Record of the Year Award for the song Usinobore off their latest album 82.

The inaugural awards were launched this year to celebrate African music and musicians’ achievement online and to unite African music fans everywhere.

SAUTI SOL TO ENDORSE CONVERSE ALLSTARS

Penya Africa is proud to announce the endorsement deal between Sauti Sol and the international brand Converse, which in Africa is distributed by Factory 55.
Factory 55's core objective is to increase brand image, building customer awareness and a clearly defined position in the minds of the target audience. Factory 55 is driving its attention to endorsing young creativity by sponsoring the youth market in Kenya and in doing so, recognizes and therefore endorses Sauti Sol as the CONVERSE ALLSTAR brand ambassadors -“All STAR ARTISTS”, as a group that will communicate the Converse brand messages because they believe that the ALL STAR brand needs to be affiliated with an already recognized and award winning group (Sauti Sol) for their sense of style and fashion and primarily also because it believes that they are STARS in the essence of the meaning.
Penya Africa is back in a huge way in 2010, in June Sauti Sol are going for a 3-month European tour together with Stan. The group are also featured on the upcoming song “Ni Sasa” with Juliani and Suzanna Owiyo and produced by Wawesh, it’s a collaborative effort by Kenyans For Change that features art personalities working together towards the realization of a New Constitution at the referendum in Kenya 2010. Other releases of 2010 include a massive Kenya-Nigeria collaboration: Nigeria’s Sasha and General Pype alongside our very own Sauti Sol and Muthoni the Drummer Queen with a crazy jam, Mara Hio Hio (free download available here)It’s the best of East meets West of Africa, and is one of the hottest tracks to come out of this region in a long time.

AN AFTER EASTER GIG

MARA HIO HIO A NAIJA-NAI HITSONG

Kenya singers Sauti Sol have colaborated with naija acts Sasha and General Pype. The music video hasn't been shot yet but you can have a listen...

SAUTI SOL THREATENED BY POLITICIAN

You know you are making an impact when fat cats call to threaten your life. This happened to the members of Sauti Sol who after a radio interview a very “big and influential” personality called to threatened their lives.
Our source who requested anonymity says, “What happened is, the politician who heard them on radio called them up and was really ticked off by the contents of the politically charged song they sung. He then threatened them.”
The song in question is yet to see the light of day, as it has never been sung in public again. The song castigates the killing of innocent people and the cancer of growing corruption and impunity that is quickly killing Kenya.
With the growing popularity of Sauti Sol that is made up of Delvin Mudigi, Bien-Aime Baraza, Willis Chimano and Polycarp Otieno, fat cats should beware of a young voice that is steadily rising. Just last month they performed for the Netherlands Crown Princess Maxima at the Hague during their tour of Europe.
In the recent Kiss TV Unplugged show the quartet released their newest political song Geuza Dunia that shades light on the current situation in the country like the state of football and the post poll violence.
The group who are steadily taking over the industry with their brand of music are not only political but they are getting philanthropic too.
They will be performing for a cancer benefit concert at the Nairobi International School on December 11. Here all the proceeds go into buying expensive machinery that will be used in the treatment of cancer patients.