WAS THE MEDIA JUSTIFIED IN QUESTIONING THE GOSPEL INDUSTRY

Over the last weeknd, two of Kenya’s leading entertainment magazines carried stories alluding into the commercialization of gospel music rather than winning souls. Let’s do a small flashback. When Groove awards had issues smtimes back, the media covered the whole drama with serious zeal, come 2010 n although they are covering the success, they are more focused on what ws wrong than the big part that was excellent. Some guys who writes in a funny style wrote this words “who would want to listen to you stammering on stage”, well we can all see where Eko dida is today despite that. Fast forward today n most of the guys who were dissed are now ruling the airwves. After the success of Groove 2010, we shuld have expected such words from the media. Here is reason why.
Well, they might have a point, but if anyone is to be a moral cop of the music industry it cant be the two pulications. The media lack moral credibility to criticize other people coz they aint clean either. Agreed, gospel musicians are not saints n so is me, u, the church n surely the media is the same. We make mistakes; fall down bt to tell you the truth the media is not trying to bring spirituality to the industry, to them, drama sells so a clean industry is not good for them, we all seem to be falling to the trap, here is how.
Lets think straight, the media is not correcting the gospel industry-you cant correct pple on smthing you as a well- . what they are doing is igniting a war of words btwn them and the artists, btwn gospel artists n pastors and among the gospel music enthusiasts themselves. Instead of helping smbdy when they make a mistake we will point fingers more coz the media planted that seed of pointing fingers. Since last Friday have updates of fcbk that show those words realy affected sme pple. The comments that followed are a confirmation of what am saying, its more of why am right n u r wrong.
All Christians should be justified by the bible n Christ coz he is the one who called them. No artist should feel obliged to justify themselves to these publication because am sure they even don’t kno your calling hence they have no idea why you do what you do. Trying to argue among us is a win for the devil- you remember the author of confusion- ITS TIMES LIKE THIS THAT WE NEED TO GO ON OUR KNEES, God knows our purpose n he will lead us to the end. Taking over the music industry as the gospel has would come at a PRICE (well this is it). Are we ready to pay? Its just the beginning, more persecution not only in words will come. Its time we supported each other, our artists arnt saints, bt we are not saints also. Get ready for some serious spiritual battle.
Ephesians 6:12-18. Take the full amour, God will see us through this. More importantly, lets love, care, encourage n pray for each other ”the battle is not ours, it’s the lords ”. pray that he grants us victory over anyone trying to bring this kingdom down in the media, its at times like this that is we ACT AS JESUS WOULD, that we will experience the most growth. May you be blessed as you fearlessly continue building the kingdom

THE DRAFT CONSTITUTION

WELL have done ma best to read the draft n here is my 2cents worth of advice. One this is perhaps one of the best drafts we have had in a long time. depending on where you are looking at it from, then this is quite some good piece. well i wont tell you ma vote bt i support 95% of the draft. what i have a problem with is the way the draft is being explained by the YES n NO camps..
its almost a no brainer that the draft will pass. with the type of rigging we saw in 2007, now u know Odm N PNu are in the same side so this is double tragedy, add into the mix mr. Wiper n the deal is sealed. bt for some moment. whatever way the clause on abortion is put, the lawyers will always have diff opinions so nothing new. the issue of kadhi courts is the thing that might make me vote no.. but a point here is that its never been done before where a right is removed from the constitution but in most cases they try to make it more inclusive, my take is that inclusion of religious courts would be a better idea than removal of kadhis courts. with the many churches around i think it would be impossible to agree on one such court. Furthermore, Christianity to some people is not more of a religion but a way of life so legislating wont go well with them. whichever way we look at it, it might be the only reason kibaki become president, to atleast leave a legacy.
whichever way the vote goes, sme pple will be to blame for the future of the country..
this is ma 1st of many takes on the draft to come.. part 2 is up tomorow

GROOVE AWARDS: THE OTHER SIDE

When we hear of groove awards the thing that comes to mind is who won what award. Who won but I dnt agree with n who in our opinion should have won. Well all that is good, bt there is a side of groove that made it what it was on May 1st. For anybdy planning to do events in future, here are sme lessons we can learn:

TIME: groove was supposd to be on NTV btwn 2pm n 7pm.well they started on time, finishd on time.. the MC’s appeared on stage 3times only. All the announcement n presentations were scripted to save on time. In short the organizers got that part ryt.

THEME: the theme was about celebrating a musical journey from the 80’s to today. From the mc’s, Esther Wahome doing mary Atieno’s song”Adamu na eva” to r-kay doing ukilya moko.. all the way to the rap duo of A-star n Rigga. N the lastly the current crop of Eko, juliani,MOG n Daddy Owen was a true musical journey. The presence of pple like Japheth kasanga n pete odera jst showed Groove meant business. The dancers too took us through a real musical journey with dances from yesteryears to todays hits(Tobina).

VENUE: For those in the know. KICC is one of the best conference centres this side of the world. While any venue could do for an event of such magnitude, the choice of KICC speaks for itself. If you are doing an event which is expected to raise standards, nothing should be taken for granted, venue included.

MC’s and Controllers: if you noticed the event was celebrating the growth of music for the last 3 decades, for such an event smbdy with a good understanding of the same is a good choice. They might not av been as funny as others bt Kanji & Amani had a grasp of the music industry. The pre-recorded slides also managed to reduce the time spent on announcements thus the efficiency witnessed

LIVE BAND; the use of a live band for all performances ws a new standard. They were able to control amount of time spent on satge. Raise n lower the tempo of the event and bring a whole new meaning to the word “live”. On this one they got it ryt.

SPONSORS: well this is it. Sponsors were picked strategically. Safaricom was the Title sponsor n you could see why from the standard displayed. NTV did what they kno best. Live gigs n pop media made sure the stage befitted such an event. The media houses involved were strategically picked for maximum publicity n all the other sponsors were here to do their part. There is much that goes to an event so when picking sponsors choose strategically.
Well some things were kinda weird. Like Juliani’s too sagging trousers were sme how off the blacktie event. The MC’s had sme jokes which pple were not getting coz they are kinda yesterday n all. Everybody sees what they want to see n as much as groove wasn’t without hitches, it stood out for the right reason. Well this is my take n I would very much welcome pple’s take on the same…