Kenzo's music is too local for international audience - Keko

Rapper Keko who returned to Uganda last year after over five years in Canada has revealed that singer Eddy Kenzo shocked her when he went international with his very local style of music.

In a country where artistes intentionally make music to go international, she reasoned that dancers, the Triplets Ghetto Kids in Kenzo's Sitya Loss, had a huge influence in making his music get the global attention it didn’t deserve, and for the same reason earned him BET Award. 

“I was personally shocked that he (Kenzo) went international. His music is kind of interesting, but I still feel like it has that Ugandan thing. Like he makes music for the Ugandans. You know the Ghetto Kids at that time, it was a new trend. I mean you can see how far they have gone. I think he blew up because of the Ghetto Kids. The song was good, sold by the Ghetto kids. It was the song that won him the BET,” said Keko on a local radio interview. 

Over a week ago, Kenzo claimed that the song Sitya Loss was first rejected by Ugandans because it didn’t carry the sound they have been conditioned to appreciate. It was until it became a hit song outside the borders of Uganda that people here warmed up to it.