Traveling Kenyan Music Producer Gives Hope to Rural Artists
Voice of America
AWENDO, KENYA - A Kenyan music producer is taking his work to remote villages to record up-and-coming artists on location to offer something new and different for Kenya’s competitive music industry.
Producer Presta George imagined how difficult it must be for village artists to get their songs on the radio, let alone become famous. And that’s where George found his calling - in the southwest town of Awendo. But the town of 16,000 people is not where he does most of his recordings.People walk past the entrance of the International Medical Corps American field hospital ahead of its evacuation in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on June 2, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas. Displaced Palestinians sit alongside their belongings in a van driving in al-Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip on June 2, 2024. People talk in front of a sign referring to hostages kidnapped during the deadly October 7 attack by the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Tel Aviv, Israel, June 2, 2024. Palestinians use a path lined with destroyed buildings al-Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip on June 2, 2024.
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