“The rest of the world doesn’t really know us for music. But I do feel like East Africa is the next frontier for African music, because we do things a bit differently,” Blinky Bill mentions over Zoom.
No one else sounds like Bill Sellanga, the multi-talented artist, producer and DJ from Nairobi, Kenya known as Blinky Bill. He formed his musical roots as one-fourth of the art collective and genre-agnostic group Just A Band, who are widely regarded as the forefathers of Kenya’s alternative music scene. Blinky’s solo musical career…