Music (Kenya): Getting to Know Diva Akothee, Suddenly, Plus a Passing Note on Grace Jones

Kenya's newly-found musical sensation, Akothee, is all of a sudden strutting the East African entertainment stage like she's just landed from another planet; and like the Diva she must surely become, one suspects, if things continue at the velocity and along the inter-stellar trajectory we're witnessing -- agape and agog, to boot! Here below, for example, Akothee, the girl from Rongo (on that long-winded route to Sirius, perhaps), tells NTV's Larry Madowo of her incredible, unstoppable life's journey so far. Click on the image below and be a witness, if you've got 23:40 jaw-dropping minutes to spare. Be warned, though, this mother of five star-children sees and says things just as they are, and doesn't know (yet?) what the word Socialite "posed 2 mean" (those aren't her words, sorry):

READ: Nine things You Didn't Know About Akothee

In the next video, Akothee tells us more, even more, about Akothee. Is that why I'm beginning to think of irrepressible Grace Jones (everyone interested in the performing arts should know her by now, for their own good sake) who once swore (some people wanted so bad to believe her) that she'd never write her memoirs. And then, voila, The Book drops, feet first, sort of! You check out the similarities and possibilities, inspired by Akothee: who's loud and impossible. Who does "the impossibilities".

The video alluded to is sung in Swahili (which Akothee speaks with amazing fluency, being the unapologetic Jang'o that she is), and I'm not translating. Akothee's remembrances are coming out, freely, in chunks of rib-cracking episodes. Long may they run. Still, a book must surely follow (perhaps titled simply Akothee):

MENTORSHIP POINT: Akothee was only recently really broke, but beat that bad rap real bad

Akothee (on Churchill Show): "I am the author of my story". Watch:

Then there's this related matter of Akothee's recently released single, My Sweet Love. in which incredible Bongo Flava star, Tanzania's Diamond Platnumz (no less), willingly features! The Akothee-Diamond collabo has set off a rumor mill that's very revealing concerning how the world of collabos works, though some details around it need to be verified. Read More -- after you play the music.

Total My Sweetie Love views as at 2 a.m. Jan 16, 2016 = 53,505

SEE: Dazzling Images of Akothee (Grace Jones. eat your heart out)

Let me finish!
I'd like to finish, without further ado, with  Shengerera Mama (released in August 2015). This is Akothee's tribute to the proverbial Mama we all know:

Total Sengerera views as at 2:00 a.m., Jan 16, 2016 = 36,954