Sauti Sol dissected
BY WAGA ODONGO
Name: Sauti Sol
Age: 10
Known For: Good music, winning awards, that infectious lipala dance, being pro-feminism in their songs, being anti-feminism in their songs, attracting corporates, chasing corporates away.
Appearance: 15 minutes late to the stage.
Statistics
Total Sauti Sol Discography Play time: 2hrs 21 min 09 sec
Average length of Sauti Sol song: 4:24
Instagram followers: 429K
Twitter Followers: 214K
YouTube: 60K
Ask: What does Sol even mean, isn’t that the name of the Peruvian currency?
Don’t ask: After Nishike, asking a lover to get close, you sung Nerea, asking a woman not to abort – things move pretty fast with you guys and the ladies don’t they?
5.31 Million
number of views the notorious Nishike video has on YouTube
2014
Nishike was the most watched Kenyan video in 2014. It also lost them their corporate backers
Quotable quote
“Kenyans largely suffer from Poppy Syndrome, a social phenomenon in which people of genuine merit are resented, attacked, cut down or criticised because their talents or achievements elevate them above or distinguish them from their peers.
– BIEN-AIME BARAZA.