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Sauti Sol singer Bien Aime and fiancee excite social media with steamy dance video

Posted on by Pauline Syombua

Sauti Sol singer Bien Aime Baraza and his fiancée Chiki Kuruka have left many awed after sharing a rather steamy dance video on social media.

The love birds decided to show the world how good they are when it comes to pulling off serious dance moves and since it was Chiki Kuruka’s birthday, Bien rewarded her with a really nice and erotic dance.

Steamy

The two have been dating now for a couple of years and Bien even proposed early this year.

“LAPDANCE FOR MY BABY, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE LOVE OF MY LIFE.There truley is no me without you. My BEST HALF. Thanks for keeping up with my ashy ass for all these years (yes years) MY FACE IS YOUR THRONE. I love you @chikikuruka. See you later – Song: Overdose Artist: @Nviirithestoryteller” Bien captioned the video.

The video has attracted many reactions including from other celebs who have showed their support for the two love birds.

Watch it below:

https://www.instagram.com/p/B1_EcSnlsOf/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=embed_video_watch_again

 

Sauti Sol singer Bien defends Beyonce for snubbing Kenyan artists 

Posted on by Pauline Syombua

Sauti Sol singer Bien Baraza is totally okay with the direction Beyonce took in her new album The Gift and is urging fellow artists to stop complaining.

Bien said that Beyonce was looking for Afrobeat sound a reason why he chose West African artists instead of East African.

Worker harder

He urged Kenyans to focus on their hustle to appoint they can’t be ignored instead of complaining.

“As Kenya artist, we should stop that victim mentality that tunaonewa( we are being marginalized).” Said the singer.

“Guys should just sing and make hits. It will eventually get to Beyonce but you need to work as an industry. Sauti Sol should not be the only group worthy of being in such an album we need to be many. We need to step up as an industry with structure and we will make it.”

The movie Lion King has been shot in East Africa and many people expected to hear EA artists.

Boy band Sauti Sol sign mega international deal?

Posted on by Pauline Syombua

It seems boys band Sauti Sol have landed a huge international deal that might see them record their forthcoming album surrounded by other music greats.

In an interview with Kiss 100, Bien hinted that they might have been signed to an international recording label.

Big news

Bien talked about a few sign-ins they have on board who are working on their projects and are yet to launch them soon.

“We are about to make a big announcement regarding our next move in our career. it involves a record label. we are planning for it. artiste are recording their songs and we are set to record our album,” he said. 

Sony Music has signed such artists as Tiwa Savage, Davido, D’banj and Ycee. Other artists who have been signed by other international record labels include Wizkid, Ali kiba and Redsan among others.

Sauti Sol’s Bien says Kenyans don’t respect themselves that’s why Nigerian Burna Boy can easily disrespects them 

Posted on by Pauline Syombua

Burna Boy was a trending topic during the weekend after he was asked to apologize for disrespecting Kenyans and refused.

The Nigerian singer, a few months back called Kenyans peasants on his social media pages angering many. Many influential people tried to bend his arm for an apology but he totally refused.

Sauti Sol singer Bien Aime took to social media to explain that Burna Boy is not so much on the wrong since Kenyans can’t even respect themselves in the first place, therefore shouldn’t ask for respect from foreigners.

Political

Burna Boy

“If you demanded an apology this vehemently from political class. This would be a different country all together” wrote Bien.

Some fans were not happy with his statement and immediately started attacking him.

“You are always right  …but this time you are missing the point” A fan told him. 

Bien replied:

“We don’t respect ourselves but we demand respect from others. We (Myself included) have brought this country and particularly our industry to its knees. I don’t endorse Burna Boy behavior.. But feel like we have bigger fish to fry”

Sauti Sol beg fans to forgive them after missing anticipated show 

Posted on by Pauline Syombua

Sauti Sol have released a statement apologizing for missing a show in Rwanda. The band was scheduled to perform at the Pan-African Dance Festival (FESPAD) in Kigali on Sunday 29th July but couldn’t make it in time.

Sorry

Posting the statement on social media, the band said the concert had to be canceled because they had issues with the promoter.

“To all our fans in Rwanda,

“We are sorry we were unable to perform for all of you at the Pan-African Dance Festival (FESPAD) in Kigali on Sunday 29th July. We would like to take this opportunity to explain the cancellation of our performance last night as it was a disappointment to us too.” read their presser.

“This was an organisational issue with the promoters of the festival. They reached out to us and despite our busy schedule in Zambia we took the time to accommodate this show because as usual we were very excited to come play in Kigali. We always have a blast playing for our Rwandan fans!

“This was a deeply disappointing outcome and the situation was out of our hands. If it was up to us we would have rocked out like we always do!”

Watch the video below:

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bl22H1MFo7h/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=embed_loading_state_control

Behind the scenes: Sauti Sol team up with Nyashinski for new song

Posted on by Pauline Syombua

It’s a collabo many have been secretly imagining for along time now and it has finally happened. Popular boy band Sauti Sol have collaborated with top singer Nyashinski for their new track “Short and Sweet”.

The song is already out and the video will be dropping any minute from now.

“Even before I came back to Kenya, I was always in awe of the works of Sauti Sol,” said Nyashinski.

“It’s amazing how we struck a cord almost immediately, and we’ve grown to become friends. I always believed this (working together) was going to happen at some point; the actualization is an honor – to be part of their Afrikan Sauce project.”

Polycarp added: “Working with Nyashinski was absolutely amazing. This collaboration was inevitable and we knew that both our sounds would fuse so well together but it honesty came out better than we ever expected it to.”

“Short and Sweet” is the fifth single of their upcoming album “Afrikan Sauce” which is currently in the kitchen and will we be served pretty soon.

Other songs in the album include: Melanin (Ft. Patoranking), Rewind (Ft. Khaligraph Jones), Afrikan Star (Ft. Burna Boy), Girl Next Door (Ft. Tiwa Savag) and Live and Die in Afrika (Remix) (Ft. Rick Ross).

 

After Davido, Sauti Sol planning to work with Wizkid?

Posted on by Pauline Syombua

Our close sources inform us that Sauti Sol and Davidi have an amazing project set to be released before the end of the year. Though we did not get more details about the song, we are sure that it will be one of the greatest projects we have seen this year from the boys.

There song with C4 Pedro is not only taking over the airwaves in East Africa but in Africa as a whole. Their latest hit song #friendzone is also proving to be an anthem among fans who cannot help but sing along to each and every lyric in the song.

https://instagram.com/p/BW6QF5uFn_B/

Away from that, we understand that the boys (Sauti Sol) had an opportunity to hangout with Wizkid during his recent trip to Kenya. We are not quite sure whether they are up to a new project but we so since they were with Cedo.

Photo Courtesy of Tinseh