Wakimbizi are back!

Artist: Wakimbizi FT Deebouwy

Song Title: Mututho

Producer: Big Soul

Label: Subsahara Entertainment

After being absent from the Kenyan music scene for a few years, the award-winning duo of Morris and Henry Masheti, popularly known as Wakimbizi, are back with an interesting single that is quite definitive of their music.

Best remembered for their track John whose lyrics, with their double meaning, had tongues wagging, Wakimbizi are back with Mututho– one of the tracks from there soon to be released album. The track is definitely destined for instant and popular notoriety like its namesake (John Mututho is the CEO of NACADA, a government agency that fights drug and alcohol abuse in Kenya. He recently successfully pushed for a law limiting drinking hours, which highly irritated pub owners and their patrons to the extent they launched a fierce successful campaign against his re-election to Parliament during the last General Elections).

Wakimbizi was formed in the mid '90s by brothers Morris and Henry Masheti, who went by the stage names Mariko and Mr. Filter respectively. They started recording with DJ Stone at Bedrock Studios. Later on they got signed under Subsahara Entertainment, where they released their second album Usife Moyo produced by Ulopa.

Usife Moyo became so popular with tracks like Hallo Hallo and the aforementioned track John. After the success of those two songs, which received tremendous airplay, and won many awards and even an endorsement deal, the group dropped off the radar for a while to work on new music.

Now they are back with what promises to be a Kenyan, if not East African favorite – Mututho, which will not only resonate with a wide local audience, but is sure to become a regular club theme song for obvious reasons.

What is now clear is that they are back, big time! And watch this space as they are currently working on a new album that will put them back squarely on replay again, and again, and again…