Award –winning rapping boy group P-UNIT are back with a controversial single ‘Kare’, whose last Sunday’s video shoot cost the trio slightly over KSh200,000.

The whole day shoot witnessed by a host of celebrity was done at the Gallileo Lounge. It features upcoming singer Mimmi (who did the background vocals), Lady Bee, and an array of sassy models and dancers.

“We wanted to do something different from the club hits we are known for. The laid back mood is meant for guys to enjoy the lyrical content,” Frasha a member of The Unit explained.

“We put Sh120,000 on the shooting alone and another Sh90,000 on the other technical bits plus payments for models and dancers,” he added.

The contest for East Africa’s top club seems to have been won by Gallileo Lounge after the popular lounge opened a new section known as Johnny Walker VIP Lounge. The opening ceremony took place on Tuesday and attracted top stars and personalities who came to sample the black carpet treatment and were served with all kinds of Johnny Walker labels.

“The new section is for those patrons who look for VIP treatment,” said a manager at the Lounge.

Emmanuel Jal will feature in the upcoming documentary Picha Mtaani, initiated by CNN photojournalist of the year Boniface Mwangi.
The initiative is a youth-led national reconciliation initiative established “to engage the Kenyan youth in finding lasting solutions to attaining peace and reconciliation; to healing the nation”.
Jal speaks about how he witnessed his auntie been raped at the age of five, losing his mother in the war and the anguish he went through during the Sudan Civil War as a child soldier. He narrates how hard life as a refugee was and why young Kenyans should stop do their best to avoid a recurrence of what happened in 2007.

The celebrity couple of Sanaipei Tande and Manga is no more after they split citing “irreconcilable differences”.
The two have been dating for three and a half years but media reports have constantly documented their turbulent affair.

After the International AIDS Conference in Vienna, Austria last week, the officials behind the gripping three-part drama, Shuga gave it a new lease of life.
On Tuesday, July 20, a panel of MTV, Pepfar and Unicef officials heard that in Kenya, where the three part series was filmed, an astounding 64% of young people 15-24 were aware of the campaign and 60% saw it and remembered it.
This lead to increased intentions to take an HIV test decreased intentions to be in a concurrent relationship and increased positive attitudes relating to HIV stigma. More importantly, over 90% of the young people in Kenya viewer group said the show had an effect on their thinking.

What could the big shots do but declare that a sequel to Shuga be shot. Also at the conference were two of the actors in the MTV dara series, Lupita Nyongo and Nicholas Mutuma, both of whom played lead roles as Ayira and Leo respectively.

The most vocal member of the Morgan Heritage reggae group, Gramps Morgan,will be in Nairobi for a one off  concert at the Carnivore, Nairobi , on July 10.

The concert will  feature Gramps with his live band for a charity show organised by Hands Across Kenya and Dohty Family.

Our source confirms,¨Gramps Morgan will be arriving in Kenya on July 8. He will be coming with his whole band , and yes is carnivore concert is the only one he will be doing , at least for now. There will be no Kenyan acts involved, apart from the Kenyan Djs.

The reason for this is the expense involved and this being a charity event.¨

While in the city city ,Gramps  who recently won three international Reggae and World Music Awards (IRAMWA)for best song,Best news Entertainer  and best crossover song will visit a hospital to donate medicine.

¨We have medicine that we will be giving out that has been donated from some hospitals in the USA and he will be visiting some few homes we have selected ,¨the source said.

Gramps is expected to perform  hits like Wash the tears, come back to Bed, one in a million,therapy, power of prayer, Always and forever.

The Tanzanian rumor mill is hinting on possible collaboration between rapper AY and Jamaican singer Sean Kingston.

The rumor started in may when Sean Kingston was interviewed during his visit to Tanzania for the Kilimanjaro Awards.

Kingston admitted that he admired AY’s work and would like to do some work with him .

On his part AY revealed .¨when I met Sean Kingston, he told me he liked my work and wanted to do a song with me.

We would have recorded a song during his visit but my producer Hermy Bakawa was out of town.

Gospel singer Mzee Mzima escaped death when he was involved in an accident on the Eldoret-Kitale highway on Saturday night.

The singer who also runs the Streetnizers Ministry and Children’s  Home was travelling from Goseta Secondary School where he and singer Ringtone and some cast members from the TV drama Tahidi High had performed.

Two hours from the school near Moi´s Bridge, Mzee Mzima and his fellow passenger Yusuf stopped for food. They started their journey again and that is when a Nissan matatu hit the saloon car they were travelling in head on.

At the time of going to press, the two had been discharged from hospital. Mzee Mzima was treated for minor injuries while Yusuf was treated for severe head injuries.

Mzee Mzima has worked with other gospel acts like Daddy Owen , Mr Boo and Ephy.

If there is one thing we have to admire about Nazizi it’s her ability to keep a secret. The Necessary Noize singer has been so tight-lipped about her life over the years that it recently came as a rude shock to her fans last month that she had been married for two years.

In more surprises, early this week the singer delivered a baby boy who she has named Kamar. She has also hinted on a Necessary Noize single in the near future.

On her Facebook fan page she posted: “Necessary Noize coming soon…so the discussion me and Wyre had the other day is what the new song should sound like,mmmhh.”

Celebrated Kenyan movie maker Wanuri Kahiu has been featured in this month’s Vogue Italia, the Italian edition of Vogue Magazine. The tell-all-interview has Wanuri discussing both her personal and public life.

One excerpt reads, “I think I’m the black sheep in the family: my mother is a doctor, my father is a businessman and they are more conservative in a particular way…” She also gives some beauty advice, “A woman shouldn’t leave home without eye makeup, even before your clothes, they notice your eyes.”

Wanuri also pays tribute to Hollywood director Philip Noyce whom she worked with on movies like The Italian Job and Catch a Fire.

“He inspired me and in that film I really learned more than in any film school and I realized what it means to work with actors and directing it was really first training.”

What the future holds for her? “I’m very hopeful about the future, but knowing that I make a difference myself. I believe that people can plant trees and should conserve, recycle and re-use things. We have to be careful and sensitive; like in my film Pumzi, we have to be the mother of Mother Nature and if we are not, then she will stop mothering us.”