Kenya

samidoh muchoki

Few Kenyan artists have turned a single guitar and a bar full of strangers into the kind of viral, multi-million-view phenomenon that Samidoh has built his career on. He is the reigning face of Mugithi, the stripped-down, sing-along genre that turns Nairobi’s nyama choma joints into open-air concerts most weekends, and by August 2026 that same name recognition had carried him into national politics as well.