Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Leading Kenyan Song Artist (at least at some point)

Here's a link to a CD published in 2001. Apparently Eric Wainaina was and still is a popular singer/songwriter from Kenya. His CD is interesting because it is a combination of English, Swahili, and Kikuyu. To me, he sounds fluent in English without much of an accent at all. I don't really know how good his Swahili is, but it sounds to me like he is equally comfortable (at least with singing) with each language.

I couldn't find any information on his primary language or first language, but here's what I did find:

Samples of his CD tracks (pretty cool music)

Wikipedia entry for him. It discusses his background a little bit, but nothing too much on languages.

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