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Nabalayo Wattimah
Music-maker and Illustrator
Description
Nabalayo is a Kenyan multi-disciplinary artist with a
bachelor’s degree in music performance arts. She is
passionate about community and cultural heritage and
exchange, taking a keen interest in her Kenyan roots as her
foundation while using music as a tool of transformation.
Her inspiration lies in indigenous folk music culture. As an
ethnomusicology enthusiast, she seeks to preserve the
surviving remnants of folk idioms. Her approach involves
documentation, advocacy and creative expression through
music.
Her values shine through her craft where she creates neo
traditional music that brings the beauty and complexity of
the past with the wonders of today together.
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