This Is How Suits And Mics Went Down! (Photos)

Suits and mics was held at Safaricom’s Michael Joseph Centre, and if you missed it, you missed out on a very awesome display of talent!

The event featured Band 254, The live legends, vocalist Zosi and emcees jemedari, Kimya, Point Blank and OK Syde. It was my first time seeing Kimya Ok Syde and I was blown away by the lyrical prowess of these two cats!  All the pictures are courtesy of Eric Saganda of Fotogeric.

Another surprise of the night was vocalist Zosi who not only paid tribute to Bob Marley, but also did an amazing jazz song that she penned. Zosi, please sing, please. With a voice like that, and an effortless presense on stage, it is only fair that the universe is blessed with your skill. And yes, Zosi I believe is the first to get point Blank to BGV, he actually sang on stage! More suits and mics news here.

Point Blank who happened to be the EmCee of the night, would intermittently drop freestyled rhymes as well as blasts from the past. In a trivia like technique, he’d ask the band to play something or he’d start flowing and then ask the audience to guess what song it was. Very very clever.

The last act of the night was of-course Jemedari who reeks of passion in copius amounts! Everytime I hear letter to the president, against a backdrop of the audacious shenanigans of our members of parlaiment, it leaves me with a sense of sadness. It is sheer artistry that would lead one to capture the tone and emotion of a people’s cry in a song. Listen to that song here.

My most memorable moment however was when saxophonist Steve Munge of Band 254 took to the stage to play a mothers’ day tribute to his late mum. A woman’s worth by Alicia Keys was his choice, apart from a handful of us who were singing along, the rest of the audience was stunned to silence. The mood was heavy as he oozed emotion with every note he struck. Le sigh.

The band of the night was Band 254, and the other amazing act of the night was The Live Legends. Band 254 members are pianist Muema, drummer Onyis and saxophonist Steve. Live legends consists of producer/deejay Kelvin Justus and fiddler Scott Kabugi. He did insist we call him fiddler and not violinist. You need to hear these two on stage, amazing!

Below are more pictures from the event.