The text below in italics was added in December 2006 by the artist himself I'm leaving that as is flr that reason and will continue the wiki below that. After completing my high school education at Jamhuri High School in 1992, armed with French, I became a tour guide based in Mombasa. Having been born a musician, I began substituting guiding with musical performance for tourists in Diani Beach Hotels, the latter surpassing the former. By 1999, I had recorded my first single Mr.
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The text below in italics was added in December 2006 by the artist himself I'm leaving that as is flr that reason and will continue the wiki below that. After completing my high school education at Jamhuri High School in 1992, armed with French, I became a tour guide based in Mombasa. Having been born a musician, I began substituting guiding with musical performance for tourists in Diani Beach Hotels, the latter surpassing the former. By 1999, I had recorded my first single Mr. Lololova a reggae song that branded me. I curtain raised for Maxi Priest in the Beats of the Season. By 2000, I found a sponsor for an album of ten tracks, but due to lack of full payment to the producer, my album never saw the light of day. I carried on and performed with Awilo Longomba during the last Beats of the Season. In 2001,2002 and 2004, I curtain raised for Gregory Isaacs, Mighty Culture, and Glen Washington respectively in Nairobi. In December 2004, with the Nairobi City Ensemble, I traveled to Djibouti for the Fest-Horn Festival. More recently as one of the finalists of Spotlight on Kenyan music, I curtain raised a show by a great son of Congo based in Paris, Lokua Kanza, at Alliance Francaise, Nairobi. Currently I have finished recording my twelve track album Ohanglaman on this album I have changed my style of music from a raga to an African music popularly referred to as Anglo-Ohangla which is a fusion of Ohangla, Nyatiti, and Dodo -traditional Luo (western Kenya, Lake Victoria region tribe) styles of Music, with other modern African beats with heavily accented Luo-English Vocals. Ohanglaman waz released in 2005, since then Makadem has released 2 albums (Koko Rio in 2015 and Unplugged) in 2024 plus several EPs. He plays the Kenyan Luo Lyre Nyatiti as well as Kalimba and acoustic guitar among other instruments.
