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Ngwatilo

Ngwatilo Radio

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  • Genre: Experimental / Soul

    Location Nairobi, KE

    Profile Views: 6969

    Last Login: 4/13/2009

    Member Since 4/22/2005

    Website ngwatilo.com

    Type of Label Major

  • Bio

    Ngwatilo: To hold on to .. She grew up singing in church in Nairobi, Kenya, but it was while at university that Ngwatilo’s relationship with music took a definitive turn. She embarked on a quest for self that took her to Johannesburg, South Africa to study the role of Kwaito music in shaping post-apartheid urban youth identity. There Ngwatilo found the stuff of poems spewing out of impassioned exchanges with friends, thick in the air at a particular Jozi reading, and alone with her on the road between Venda and Johannesburg. There was little to do but hold on... She’s since lived in London and New York City, primarily engaging in the ways folk make jazz and poetry. In Kenya Ngwatilo found a valued mentor in Eric Wainaina, and is currently digging closer to her roots, seeking the wisdom only family and community can teach a person. .. Ngwatilo is a smoldering star you will hurtle past. Stop and listen, or pass this way often. Her voice is gentle and bold, her words thoughtfully disarming. She would cut through to the core of your mind and heart and deposit love there.

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    5 years ago
  • John Paul

    Full details have been coming for an awful long time now! How are you? Have you finished college and any plans to stop by in London?

    John Paul

    5 years ago
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    JAH BLESS,
    JAHFYAH

    "We must look, first, to Almighty God, Who has raised man above the animals and endowed him with intelligence and reason. We must put our faith in Him, that He will not desert us or permit us to destroy humanity which He created in His image. And we must look into ourselves, into the depth of our souls. We must become something we have never been and for which our education and experience and environment have ill-prepared us. We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community."

    --HIS DIVINE MAJESTY KING HAILE SELASSIE I THE FIRST

    5 years ago
  • John Paul

    I like the new photo! When are you coming to the UK again?

    John Paul

    5 years ago

Bio:

Ngwatilo: To hold on to

She grew up singing in church in Nairobi, Kenya, but it was while at university that Ngwatilo’s relationship with music took a definitive turn. She embarked on a quest for self that took her to Johannesburg, South Africa to study the role of Kwaito music in shaping post-apartheid urban youth identity. There Ngwatilo found the stuff of poems spewing out of impassioned exchanges with friends, thick in the air at a particular Jozi reading, and alone with her on the road between Venda and Johannesburg. There was little to do but hold on.

She’s since lived in London and New York City, primarily engaging in the ways folk make jazz and poetry. In Kenya Ngwatilo found a valued mentor in Eric Wainaina, and is currently digging closer to her roots, seeking the wisdom only family and community can teach a person.

Ngwatilo is a smoldering star you will hurtle past. Stop and listen, or pass this way often. Her voice is gentle and bold, her words thoughtfully disarming. She would cut through to the core of your mind and heart and deposit love there.

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