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Released
  
4 August 2009

Artist
  
Sauti Sol

Label
  
Penya

Mwanzo (2009)
  
Sol Filosofia (2011)

Release date
  
4 August 2009

Producer
  
Wawesh

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Genres
  
African popular music, Afro pop music, Afro-fusion

Sauti sol asubuhi


Mwanzo is the debut studio album by Sauti Sol, a Kenyan afro-pop band. It was released on August 4, 2009 by Penya Records.

Contents

Singles

  • "Lazizi" was released as the album's lead single. The song became popular among the band's fans, with other musicians performing their own cover versions of it. The song is about an ordinary man's plea to get a lady's number, so he can at least plan to take her out on a date, and earned the band thousands of fans across East Africa.
  • "Blue Uniform" was released as the album's second single. It depicts police harassment towards the youth in Kenya. The band's singers Bien-Aimé Baraza, Willis Austin Chimano and Delvin Mudigi divide their verses into three personas: an innocent arrested youth, a bad police officer and another who explains why police officers sometimes get into corruption, with the story ending with the policeman releasing the youth with a stern warning.
  • "Sunny Days" and "Nairobi" were released as the album's third and fourth singles, respectively. Featuring soul singer Stan, "Nairobi" is a tribute to Nairobi's beauty, sunshine, people, history, arts and culture.

    • Track listing

    Track listing for Mwanzo adapted from Amazon.com and Sauti Sol's official website.

    Songs

    1Asubuhi4:47
    2Lazizi3:52
    3Mafunzo ya dunia4:16

    References

    Mwanzo Wikipedia
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