 and today i have the amazing uncle styles with me hello hello how are you you're well very good good to see you thank you thank you for showing up i'm you you're good i'm very good you're very good very good why do they call you uncle styles? actually that goes way back to things i used to do i actually got the the name uncle uncle gary here i used to be here i think um years ago like two three two three years ago yeah i used to be here i kind of let me say part of my school was here so there's a guy called Matthias momany yes yeah you may know him so Matthias momany he used to engage me in uh in some segment in in some swahili radio something so he used to engage me on that and i used to really talk things that had how do i i do i how do i put things but um i used to say things that had um wisdom you see so that was a swahili show so out of doing all this Matthias was like uh then uh then uncle uncle so that is i got to be called uncle and then uh styles now is coming in by the time i'm feeling like i need to sing now i need to do a lot of things here and um i was into this music and i used i i needed to use a name that could also be used in sometime in the future in what i'm doing so i was also looking that uh if i'm proceeding forward going forward and music started to come out in so i kind of come out fashion it was a meeting those it had so come out after you know but it's not going to uncle styles styles it's a gear I see now I'm going to meet you no no no so styles evil tune don't need to put a money it comes from like your real name actually my real name is uh way different from uncle styles nothing no connection thank you for saying that yeah I do acting plus I'm a journalist a place I also sing okay yeah well god was creating you at home with the one talent or none at all he created him too with like five different things that he can do you're a business man as well yeah okay how does that works very well for your singing right I think that's that uh it's kind of a booster it's kind of like you negotiate for yourself and I come with this okay when when I get to somewhere that I have nobody to talk talk on behalf of me I do that for myself and I'm good with it yeah so you come from kissy born very kissy or yeah I come from kissy I think most of my time I've been around kissy and Nairobi is Nairobi is now by the time I'm getting done with campus actually yeah so this I got to be around here okay uncle style so you're using it's bongo flavor right yeah actually I do I do that but I also do cultural music yeah you have a lot you have more you're like more kissy songs than no actually I have I have so many bongo songs but then being in kissy and being a kissy sometimes I need to entertain my people yeah so I do that for them and um I feel good to do that I feel like I'm home doing that too I also do a lot of that I'm actually really impressed so you do kissy too because you you want to entertain your community like your culture where you come from like just appreciating yeah yeah yeah that's why I actually do music for the culture I would totally judge you if I saw you at first I'd be like he's probably just trying to be one of those Nairobi rappers I would never imagine you'd say something like I'm trying to you know appreciate my culture too and just I do that and I feel very good doing that okay that's really good that's really nice so can you sing for me one of your kissy songs yeah I can do that so you won okay you have a mic in front of you you need an urban or a cultural one no I need a cultural one I need to prove like I need to really believe this okay okay so let's do this yeah am I done or should I go let's Thank you very much Thank you very much Thank you very much Thank you very much Thank you very much Okay, at least I know you were singing about a house I'm from Yumba I'm from Mugeni My Bega I'm good at this Basically I'm talking about a visitor A visitor? Yeah I'm good at singing about a house thing I'm a good singer I can change I can sing I'm good at singing I'm good at singing I can sing I can sing When you go home When they do a cultural song. They can go home and even be an MP there with win that election. Do you feel like at your home? Because you have these things when you work around the kissy town, but like yeah that's Angostowns. That's all. So you avoid doing that and why you love it? Sometimes if you want to walk around you dress funny So what do you do when you come to the president's house? But again, I love your music. Thank you for being there. Thank you. I appreciate. I like you to come here. I like your music. I am very grateful to you for coming to me. I did not go to school just to listen to music during the week. I am veryhonest, so I do not like to sing. It is a very private thing. So Uncle Stiles on your Bunga Flavor music, Cynthia, how is it embraced? You can compare the other side and this other side. 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