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Amani
Amani, born Cecilia Wairimu in Thika, Kenya in 1980, is a Kenyan singer and songwriter who popularized the Kapuka style and won the 2009 MTV Africa Music Award for Best Female Artist.
Bensoul
Bensoul, born Benson Mutua Muia in Embu County, Kenya, is a Kenyan singer-songwriter best known for the hit song 'Nairobi' and as Sol Generation's first signed artist.
Deux Vultures
Deux Vultures were a Kenyan rap duo made up of Nasty Thomas and Colonel Mustapha, formed in 2002 and known for the hit 'Monalisa' and the 2004 songs 'Kinyaunyau' and 'Adhiambo C'.
Ethic Entertainment
Ethic Entertainment, often shortened to Ethic, is a Kenyan gengetone group formed in 2018 in Nairobi's Eastlands, whose debut song "Lamba Lolo" is credited with launching gengetone.
Fathermoh
Fathermoh is the stage name of Moses Otieno Ojwang, a Kenyan gengetone singer-songwriter from Nairobi, formerly of Mbuzi Gang, known for the hits Shamra Shamra and Kaskie Vibaya.
Karun
Karun, stage name of Karungari Mungai, is a Kenyan singer-songwriter in Nairobi known for alternative R&B, who broke out with Camp Mulla and later released the EP Eternal in 2026.
KRG the Don
KRG the Don, born Karuga Kimani in Nairobi in 1991, is a Kenyan dancehall and gengetone artist known for 'Mathogothanio', his flamboyant wealth-focused persona, and repeated public feuds.
Nameless
Nameless is the stage name of David Mathenge, a Kenyan singer and rapper known for "Ninanoki" and "Boomba Train" who helped define the kapuka sound of early-2000s Kenyan pop.
Nikita Kering
Nikita Kering is a Kenyan R&B and pop singer born in 2002, a multiple AFRIMA winner and the first East African artist in Apple Music's Africa Rising program.
Orchestra Super Mazembe
Orchestra Super Mazembe was a Congolese rumba band formed in Zaire in the late 1960s and based in Nairobi, whose 1977 hit "Kassongo" became a regional anthem.
Sailors Gang
Sailors Gang, also billed as Sailors 254, is a Kenyan gengetone group formed in Nairobi in 2017, whose members included Miracle Baby, Shalkido, and Lexxy Yung.
Sauti Sol
Sauti Sol is a Kenyan Afropop band formed in Nairobi in 2005 by three vocalists and a guitarist, and the first Kenyan act to win an MTV Europe Music Award.
Ssaru
Ssaru, also known as Ssaru wa Manyaru, is a Kenyan rapper and singer born in 2002 who rose to prominence in gengetone and is widely called the Queen of Gengetone.
Willis Chimano
Willis Chimano, known mononymously as Chimano, is a Kenyan singer and baritone vocalist of the Afropop band Sauti Sol, who came out publicly in 2021 and now performs solo.
Xenia Manasseh
Xenia Manasseh, also credited as Xenia Karungu, is a Kenyan-Ugandan R&B singer-songwriter and producer from Nairobi, based in Los Angeles, known for the Love/Hate albums.