{"id":41979,"date":"2019-02-18T14:04:14","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T12:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/blinky-bill-releases-music-video-for-mungu-halali\/"},"modified":"2020-04-27T03:36:19","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T02:36:19","slug":"blinky-bill-releases-music-video-for-mungu-halali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/blinky-bill-releases-music-video-for-mungu-halali\/","title":{"rendered":"Blinky Bill releases music video for &#8220;Mungu Halali&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 class=\"pam-featured-content\" ><iframe  class=\"pam-featured-content\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HkVzzhzbBA4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/h4>\n<h4>The single\u00a0features talented Kenyan singers<strong>\u00a0Sage, Sara Mitaru, Wambura Mitaru<\/strong>\u00a0and<strong>\u00a0Lisa Oduor-Noah<\/strong>.<\/h4>\n<p>His first solo release,\u00a0<em>Everyone\u2019s Just Winging It <span style=\"color: #333333;\">And<\/span> Other Fly Tales,<\/em>\u00a0is a feel good album that owes its coherence to the haunting flow of this prolific experimenter and to its impeccable production.<\/p>\n<p>Recorded in his studio\u00a0in Nairobi, Blinky Bill&#8217;s first album features several collaborations from\u00a0Kenya&#8217;s\u00a0vibrant urban scene (Muthoni Drummer Queen, Sage..)\u00a0and more widely the African contemporary scene (Petite <span style=\"color: #333333;\">Noir,\u00a0<a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/sampa-the-great-sing-it-loud-and-free-yourself\/\">Sampa the Great<\/a>, Nneka).<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Read more:\u00a0B<a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/blinky-bill-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">linky Bill, trailblazer of the Kenyan urban scene<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The brand new music video for the single captures the essence of Nairobi\u2014religion, art, family, hustle and more. It takes us to Jimmy&#8217;s record shop, opened in 1989 next to the\u00a0GoDown Arts Center, a place that matters for\u00a0Kenyans of Bill&#8217;s generation. Surrounded by his friends, family,\u00a0he shows us his universe, backed by the choruses of Sage, Sarah Mitaru, Wambura Mitaru and Lisa Oduor Noah.<\/p>\n<h5>Read Next: <span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/flee-benga-music\/\">Please welcome FLEE and their first release that focuses on Kenya\u2019s benga music<\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n<h4>\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17444\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Blinky-Bill-by-Maxime-Debollivier-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Blinky-Bill-by-Maxime-Debollivier-4.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Blinky-Bill-by-Maxime-Debollivier-4-759x506.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Blinky-Bill-by-Maxime-Debollivier-4-661x441.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Blinky-Bill-by-Maxime-Debollivier-4-465x310.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Blinky-Bill-by-Maxime-Debollivier-4-375x250.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The single\u00a0features talented Kenyan singers\u00a0Sage, Sara Mitaru, Wambura Mitaru\u00a0and\u00a0Lisa Oduor-Noah. His first solo release,\u00a0Everyone\u2019s Just Winging It And Other Fly Tales,\u00a0is a feel good album that owes its coherence to the haunting flow of this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":17444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944],"tags":[6071],"location":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41979"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41979"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=41979"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=41979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}