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Today,multi-platinum Artist and Afrobeat’s superstar Davido released his newest track, “Stand Strong”featuring The Samples Choir, the vocal group known for their world-renowned projects including Kanye West’s Sunday Service movement. via Columbia/RCA.  The uplifting track, produced by Pheelz is available for download and streaming on all DSPs Here.

“Stand Strong” is the first offering from Davido’s highly anticipated studio album scheduled for release later this year. Grounded in a powerful base of African percussion, “Stand Strong” delivers a spirited and optimistic anthem for our times, showcasing Davido’s musical evolution and offering an exciting glimpse at what is to come for his global fans. The new track plays like a heartening 3-minute conversation of survival and battered optimism between Davido and his musical choral collaborators The Samples, understanding that the world we live in provides challenges but there is ultimate strength in love if we stand strong.

“Stand Strong” arrives on the heels of an array of high-profile releases in 2022 for Davido, including the global smash, “Hayya Hayya (Better Together)”, from the FIFA Official World Cup Soundtrack and his critically acclaimed collaborations with Skales on “This Is Your Body” and Adekunle Gold on their multi-million streaming hit, “High”.  It also follows his recent North American, “THE WE RISE BY LIFTING OTHERS” Tour announcement, which is set to kick off Thursday, June 16 in New York at The Prospect Park Bandshell and will continue to Boston, Toronto, and Chicago before the U.S. leg wraps in Los Angeles on Saturday, June  25 at the You Tube Theater. Tickets are now available for purchase.

THE WE RISE BY LIFTING OTHERS TOUR

Thursday, June 16                 

From the Curator’s Desk

Greetings, friends:
This week’s newsletter is continuing the tradition of inviting members of our community to write From The Curator’s Desk, and for this edition, I’m happy to hand it over to Eddy Ashioya, a writer and journalist.
Please send your guest writing pitches for this section to chris@barazalab.com  if you’re interested in being our guest curator on the newsletter, and you have something of interest to share to our community — a trend you’ve noticed or something you’d like us to think about.
~ Christine

There are many things we don’t agree on as a country. Is it maze or manze? Weuh! or wueh! But more pertinently, mwanaume or mwanamume—who is the real man? I have been thinking about my masculinity recently. It seems there is never a lack of someone, anyone, everyone—telling me how to be a man. Or more importantly how not to be a woman — YouTube especially is a goldmine, or landmine.
I grew up in Lutonyi Village, deep in the armpits of Kakamega, and there I saw what it meant to be a man, a certain kind of man. The testosterone was so abundant it had its own isimba in the compound. I carry a version of it everywhere I go as a service to all the doubters, in the doomed but evangelical spirit of a Jehovah’s Witness handing out pamphlets on Ngong Rd. 

In my teenage years, I thought to be a man was to be like the Marlboro Man, the one with a cigar in his mouth and a devil-may-care bravura and a hot lady or two or three dangling dangerously from his Harley-Davidson bike. And then I thought it was Michael Power, and the drop of greatness in every man. I had a small stint with Tiger Power too, the strongest Kenyan man that ever lived. In my mid-twenties I had an unholy tryst with The Godfather, identifying with Michael Corleone, a Mafia Don, a man among men. I wanted to be an American Gangster, but in a Kenyan way, the kind of man you’d find standing with a brown envelope at the corner of City H

The competition will run in Nairobi at a yet to be announced venue from February to December and feature eight bands.

Each month, two bands will compete with a one-month break between performances after each elimination. Voting will be done by a panel of judges and the public.

Note that the judging criteria will only be sent to qualified bands.

Selected requirements

To qualify, the band must:

• Adhere to the soundcheck and performance schedule. Failure to adhere will attract a 10-point penalty. 
• Incorporate a drummer. 
• Not exceed seven musicians. In case the band has more than the required members, a written request must be submitted to DrumJam for review. 
• Not share an instrumentalist with another band. If a musician plays for more than one band, a penalty of 15 points will be incurred.

A sample format of what the bands will be expected to play are as below:

• An original piece (max 10 minutes).
• Renditions of local songs (max 10 minutes).
• Rearranged international hit songs (max 10 minutes).
• Impromptu head-to-head jam (max 10 minutes).

Prize

• Winner – 150 000 Kenyan shillings ($1 500).
• Runner-up – 50 000 Kenyan shillings.

The application process is ongoing and interested bands can apply here. 

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