MOMBASA UPCOMING ARTISTS KILL THEMSEVES MUSICALLY

In the house of the wise are stores of choice, food and oil but a foolish man devours all he has and that when someone gives you a lemon then the best thing you can do is to make lemonade out of it but all these seem not to make any sense to coast new upcoming artist also referred to as wasanii chipukizi.

Instead of being in the fore front to fight music piracy in most regions in the city, the irony is that they are the ones allowing this to happen. They are like cows/bulls taking themselves to the slaughter house to be slaughtered.

The body which is mandated to deal with cases of music copyright has tried its best to help curb the rising cases of music piracy of the local music (East Africa). It has ensured that the bureaus dealing in this vice are spotted and charged where necessary.

The cases of transferring music to the removable disks like Cds, memory cards, USBs, Flash disks etc are dealt with accordingly.

But it has become to my attention that these musicians themselves are now the ones promoting this not knowing that it is killing slowly by slowly and that’s why you will hear the coastal upcoming artists themselves crying that their music is not selling and this cannot make them rise and reach their dream target of being famous like other East African Musicians like their fellow from Tanzania.

Pay a visit to any such known bureaus and the first people you get are the so called upcoming artists coming with their own songs to transfer them to memory cards and flash disks and are ready to give them for free for the attendants to sell them to people at a cost of ksh. 10 per song or even ksh.5 for a song.

In a span of one day I managed to catch of four different artists( names withheld) converting their songs so that they can have the mobile phone format to enable them sell them to the public and when I inquire to know why they are doing so, this is what one had to say.

“Because we are still not famous and most people don’t know about our existence we give them to people so that when they play them on their phones most people will have to know us and this will also make our songs be heard in a wider area” while others could not actually say why they are doing it others were just happy that they can record a song and their pride is when they walk around and hear their songs play in people’s phones, bodaboda and even in the matatus.

“It is very difficult for us to raise or to sell more because we are not known and most of our people are used to Bongo Music (Tanzanian) than ours, so we offer to give them for free that way so that when we do the next one, we are already known “ said one artist

They too also are aware that doing this is a crime but they say it’s a game they are playing safe to help them be known so that next time when they do another one people will have already know them and will be thirsting to hear their songs and will enable them sell.

The Coast Music Pirates are the artists themselves and they are doing this deliberately not knowing that they are the ones helping to kill themselves slowly bin slowly and are also digging their own graves.