KENYA: Grandpa Records Vice President Reveals Why He Feels 'Old People' Are Killing Kenya's Music Industry

Banning of music videos in Kenya has become somewhat of a norm in the past few years with many musicians having end up earning very little from their music videos since they can’t be shown on TV despite investing sometimes even millions in them.

With the Kenya Films Classification Board (KFCB) the body necessary for most of these bans showing no leniency to their stand of morality in music videos, it seems that there’s nothing much our artists can do other than bend to their will.

However for the new Grandpa Records Vice President Visita, who is also a producer and an artist, he sees this as ‘old folks’ denying Kenya of the same progress that the likes of Tanzania and Nigeria are having in their music industries.

He recently voiced his opinion on how particularly the industry is being run calling out bodies like the KFCB on their double standards, banning some Kenyan videos the deem immoral while letting others from abroad play.

Now he claims that the “old folks’ have laid ruin to the creative business in the country through their rules that seem to be promoting foreign content over local content in Kenya.

"I wonder which content these old folks are talking about,” he said

"They banned Mapepo (a song featuring himself and rapper Kenrazy) then they played Nasema Nawe by Diamond Platnumz.

"They banned Nishike by Sauti Sol then played dirty Jamaican videos.

"How can an industry dominated by youth, be run by old people?"

"My dream was to see a Kenyan Hollywood before I die. Our own Riverwood?" he says.

"I can't even remember the last time I watched a Kenyan movie on a Kenyan TV channel. Or this is Vision 3020?"

SOURCE: The Star