The Kenyan Boys Choir, brought to worldwide fame after performing at President Barack Obama’s inauguration in November 2008, comprises of 24 choir boys formed in Nairobi in 1998.
The boys, aged between 14 and 25, were personally selected by the choir’s visionary founder and conductor Joseph Muyale Inzai. The story behind the Kenyan Boys Choir is inspirational, with Joseph Muyale Inzai having given up his job with Kenyan Railways in order to run the choir, in the hope that it would give the boys a better start in life than he himself had.
The choir offer a wide ranging repertoire, with a variety of popular Kenyan, pan-African, Western, Gospel and Spritiual chants and songs of hope and optimism. When in live performance, the Kenyan Boys Choir dress in vibrant traditional tribal costumes and perform choreographed dance routines – all of which highlights the freshness, colour and vitality of this extraordinarily talented group of young men.
The Kenyan Boys Choir most recently had a huge success as the first ever African Choir to appear at the renowned Beijing International Music Festival in October 2009, with a sold out show to 2000 people.
www.kenyanboyschoir.com
The boys, aged between 14 and 25, were personally selected by the choir’s visionary founder and conductor Joseph Muyale Inzai. The story behind the Kenyan Boys Choir is inspirational, with Joseph Muyale Inzai having given up his job with Kenyan Railways in order to run the choir, in the hope that it would give the boys a better start in life than he himself had.
The choir offer a wide ranging repertoire, with a variety of popular Kenyan, pan-African, Western, Gospel and Spritiual chants and songs of hope and optimism. When in live performance, the Kenyan Boys Choir dress in vibrant traditional tribal costumes and perform choreographed dance routines – all of which highlights the freshness, colour and vitality of this extraordinarily talented group of young men.
The Kenyan Boys Choir most recently had a huge success as the first ever African Choir to appear at the renowned Beijing International Music Festival in October 2009, with a sold out show to 2000 people.
www.kenyanboyschoir.com