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Written By Trizah. Black Market Records launches NFTs for the Sipangwingwi Remix by Exray featuring the Deputy president William Ruto , Shamra Shamra by Mbuzi Gang and Mapenzi Raha by Exit Band. This makes them the first music company in the history of Kenya to present their music in form of NFTs. The CEO, Cedric Singleton while shading light on the importance of commercializing music in NFT form said that this is an alternative art form aside from digital art pieces that is going to revolutionize the music market. It is the best way to sell your music without having to experience piracy or copyright abuse that is highly experienced in the industry. Another advantage of NFTs is that once a buyer owns your music, they are free to also sell to their own people. https://opensea.io/BlackMarketRecords Non-fungible tokens. Doesn\’t ring a bell? This current platform of monetizing art has made it easier to sell anything created digitally. NFTs just \’magically\’ make you millions simply by selling music, drawings or any form of art. Non fungible means that whatever you present to your target market has to be unique and can\’t be replaced in any kind of way. A musician with a million streams on Spotify earns an estimated amount of 3000 dollars to 5000 dollars according to Business Insider. This only applies to the big artists, but for upcoming ones the royalties are hardly golden handcuffs. NFTs work for all artists as long as the quality of your music is impeccable. With that, congratulations to Black Market Records for taking the step to transform the music market sector by leading the way through encouraging other ways of selling music.

Talented Ugandan songbird Angella Katatumba staged a thrilling performance during the Vumbula Uganda Festival that was held at the Uganda Museum over the weekend. https://youtu.be/7Gm0AI9mzj4 Throngs of people flocked the Vumbula Uganda Festival that was sponsored by Nile Special Lager and enjoyed much more than what they had actually paid for, thanks to Katatumba and other artistes who graced the event.Katatumba drove the crowd into a frenzy when she stormed the stage to perform some of her great hits like ‘Wendi’, ‘Tonelabira’, ‘This Boy’, ‘Love Me’, ‘Emotional’ among others. By the time Katatumba left the stage such that other artistes would also perform the crowd was still yearning for more of her thrilling vocals.The Vumbula Uganda Festival, which started on Saturday March 19th and ended on Sunday 20th, was aimed at giving revellers an opportunity to experience and enjoy domestic tourism.It was also a networking event that brought together people from all walks of life to have fun while at the same time widening their corporate and social networks.

Talented Ugandan songbird Neliah has released the official Behind The Scenes (BTS) version for her upcoming video ‘Deep In Love’.Neliah’s BTS for ‘Deep in Love’, which was directed by Keith Enock, produced by Tony Oceans and Brivian Brian, with Cedric Singleton as the executive producer, premiered on YouTube today, March 11, 2022, via Black Market Records. https://youtu.be/at5o5Gb5Cts A soothing romantic song, ‘Deep In Love’ is a project in which Neliah gives her whole and will leave many of her fans captivated by her sweet vocals. Neliah, real name Neliah Kansiime, who is signed to Black Market Records, is one of Uganda’s fast-rising talented artistes, who is so relentless when it comes to working on music projects.It should be noted that ‘Deep In Love’ is Neliah’s latest single, although she has over time outed several other projects that include; ‘Owewange’, ‘Free’ ft Daddy Andre, ‘Owewange’, ‘Bwerere’, among others.Be sure to look out for the ‘Deep In Love’ video which dropping any time from now.

Budding songbird Emilian Starz, who is signed to Black Market Records, put up a very energetic performance at the Vumbula Uganda Festival, which was held at the Uganda Museum on Saturday 19th and Sunday March 20th, 2022.The festival, which was fired up by Nile Special lager, also doubled as a platform for domestic tourism exhibition that allowed Ugandans and foreigners to experience several tourist attractions.True to her talent, Emilian Starz, who was one of the main acts at the festival, did not disappoint the crowd. https://youtu.be/4m-2irOXF9Y The moment she started performing her great hit ‘Mr. Lover’, the crowd went wild as they sang along with Emilian, while others shouted out their love for her.She thereafter performed ‘Hello’, a love song that drove the crowd into a frenzy as others yearned to storm the stage such that they could groove with her.By the time Emilian ended her performance the revelers were all voicing their gratitude and thanking her for staging such a spirited performance.

Multi-talented American rappers FSO Mitchy Bandz and Hell Rell 3300 have unleashed the official video for their new collabo ‘What’s The Price.’ The song ‘What’s The Price’ comes with very inspiring vibes especially because Mitchy Bandz and Hell Rell, who are signed to Black Market Records, rap about what it means to live in the ghetto and the price everyone has to pay in life. FSO Mitchy Bandz and Hell Rell, who both have catalogues of numerous songs, have achieved a lot in the hip-hop music scene ever since they started rapping and they are not about to stop.‘What’s The Price’ is a block of certified platinum and there is no way it’s not going to reach millions of streams, going by the pace at which it is capturing the attention of music lovers across the globe.

By Trizah Highly gifted singer and songwriter Junior Gentle has released a new single titled \’Tuuza\’. The record was produced and written by Junior Gentle who is famously identified as Mr Charm. Mr. Charm also produced a track dubbed \”You Lied\” by Joanita Zachariassen featuring the legendary Sheebah. https://youtu.be/zdV_MxkxAGA Tuuza is a good vibes song which will entice you to get up on your feet and dance. The song is pure love and brings out the party spirit in someone. The singer and songwriter creates something different from his regulars, he fuses afrobeats and dancehall to amaze you with this masterpiece. The beats are properly curated and it’s a song that is guaranteed to slowly rise on the music charts. Junior Gentle is an artist signed under Black Market Records Africa the same label that has Daddy Andre, Nina Roz, Angela Katatumba and great great artists in Kenya like Exray Taniua etc. Listen to the track and follow Black Market Records Africa for more updates on Ugandan music, Kenyan tracks and overally East African songs.

By Trizah The gengetone wave of street music has, over the past years, creeped into the scene and a majority of old and young Kenyans had no choice but to embrace the style. Gengetone despite the many challenges is a genre that keeps evolving. More and more young ins have jumped onto the bandwagon and used the internet as their market. Team Psycho is among the first groups to join gengetone and bless us with Ghetto music. Their first hit song was Kata Tenje that introduced them to the spotlight. They have done an international Colabo with JT the Bigga Figga dubbed Badass and are slowly changing the game. Their new song features Khaligraph Jones who already has an Ep out. The song is titled OG ni nani and is buzzing. Josephyl went hard on the lyrics and so did Iyano who brought his A game. Team Psycho are proving to be great at drill music and more similar tracks from them might just put them on the top chart. Team Psycho which originally had three members has two now remaining; Josephyl and Iyano who are now at the fire front of changing the game. Check out their music on all available streaming platforms and remember to subscribe to their YouTube Channel. For more updates, follow this page.

Upcoming talented female musician Lorena Lexy has released the official video for her new single ‘Party’.Lorena’s ‘Party’ video premiered today March 17, 2022, on YouTube via Black Market Records and it is already circulating on other digital music streaming platforms. ‘Party’ is a danceable song in which Lorena puts all effort to impress and the little angel pulls it off well by exhibiting great talent as she sings, despite her age.However, besides ‘Party’ Lorena, who is signed to Black Market Records, has over time released several other songs some of which include; ‘Hossana’, ‘We Go’, ‘Time is Now’, among others.One of the youngest Ugandan female musicians, Lorena hails from a renowned God-fearing family. Her love for music started blossoming after she met her music icons Baby Gloria and Kidz Bop, who surely gave her the inspiration to start off her music career in 2020, singing Afropop and RnB genres.She is of late working with renown Ugandan producers \’ Andre On The Beat, Bash Killa and Asteyn \’ to come up with her very first EP \’ Time Is Now \’ that is yet to be officially released.Lorena says that her mission as a musician is to uplift the girl child into bigger positions in the country and to become a voice to mitigate the abuse of the girl child.

Celebrated musicians Angella Katatumba and Emilian Starz, who are both signed to Black Market Records, are set to be the main acts at the Vumbula Uganda Festival slated to happened at the Uganda Museum starting Friday to Sunday march 20th, 2022.Katatumba and Emilian Starz are already doing rehearsals as they get ready to thrill revellers who will attend the festival.However, besides Katatumba and Emilian Starz, the Vumbula Uganda Festival, which is being fired up by Nile Special beer and other sponsors, is a fun-filled that will feature performers from other artistes like Jose Chameleone, DJ Roja, Aroma, Spice Diana, Henry Tigan, Tuff B, among others. Besides entertainment from musicians, the event shall double as platform for promoting Uganda tourism, whereby revellers will get an opportunity to tour the Uganda Museum and see some of the country’s rare artefacts that date back into history.The organizers of the festival have since revealed to this website that tickets are selling at Shs50,000 (fifty thousand shillings only) and can be bought at the Uganda Museum.

Kenyan presidential aspirant Dr. William Samoe Arap Ruto has beaten the odds in the political realm after he decided to feature in the remix for Exray Taniua’s club banger ‘Sipangwingwi’.The ‘Sipangwingwi’ remix video is dropping on YouTube today, March 17th, 2022 via Black Market Records and Ruto intends to use it as his campaign song ahead of the elections in August.It should be noted that Exray Taniua has been Ruto’s campaign artist since he released the song ‘Sipangwingwi’ last year, which has so far attracted over 6M YouTube views and still counting. He specifically chose ‘Simpangwingwi’ because the meaning of the song blends entirely well with the Deputy President\’s vision and what better way to award an artist whose vision corresponds with yours?Ruto is contesting for presidency against Dr. Raila Odinga, who is backed by outgoing president Uhuru Kenyatta and ‘Sipangwingwi’ plays at all his campaign rallies. Signed to Black Market Records, Exray Taniu was born Tony Kinyanjui, in in Githurai and always had a thing for singing since childhood.He began as a gospel artist doing shows and singing in the church choir, but later decided to switch to secular music by trying out hip-hop, reggae, trap and eventually genge-tone, which he has since mastered.Exray is the first member of Boondocks gang to launch an album that features 21 songs titled \’Taniua Movement\’.The album features the legendary Mejja, badass trio Mio, Wakadinali, Chantelle and other great artists. His latest songs are Nipee, La casa, Telenovela, Alright among othersHe is popularly known as the ‘verse master’ of Boondocks alongside Odi wa Murang\’a.

The Deputy President William Ruto is one not to be intimidated let alone manipulated but did he just use a move from his opponent\’s book? What is the game plan? The Deputy president is certainly on some power plan. A collaboration by him featuring Exray Taniua is guaranteed to blow up. Exray Taniua has been his campaign artist since he released the song Sipangwingwi. The meaning of the song blends entirely will the Deputy president\’s vision and what better way to award an artist who\’s vision corresponds to yours? As we near the election date, the two presidential candidates are doing whatever it takes to make the citizens vote for them. Exray Taniua is undoubtedly making moves and this is a big step up in the game for him. Is this a declaration that he has made his own stand? Time will tell. Exray Taniua\’s strategic approach to music is an inspiration, something other artists can learn from. In a short span of time, the musician has made a name for himself, financially lifted himself up and keeps going hard. However, he has undergone challenges before getting to where he is. Check out his Spotify to stream the audio of the Sipangwingwi remix and other tracks.