BONGO GOSPEL IS TOTAL CRAP, PERIOD!!!! LEAVE IT TO BAHATI AND WILLY

BONGO GOSPEL IS TOTAL CRAP!!!

The truth and the lies surrounding this thing bongo gospel.

On Friday of 06^th 03 2015,  I updated a post on my facebook account that read like “this  issue of Kenyan boys waking up from their dreams to tell the world about their bongo gospel songs should be wise. Bongo is tanzania while gospel is the word of God. Choose wisely, either sing bongo or sing gospel” …. The post generated a lot of mixed reactions from different persons as they gave their personal opinions and views on the whole aspect of bongo gospel. some seemed to defend the whole bunch of singers  who are  currently  trending with the bongo gospel swag  while a majority distanced themselves from this bongo thing refuting claims that its good and opting to preach the gospel through music that is not divided on the aspect of   whichever genre.  lets get down to the main business .

What is bongo gospel?

 Bongo gospel is a trending style  of music (you can call it genre) that is being used in Kenya mostly by the new breed/crop of the gospel musicians whether born again or not who believe  that copy pasting what willy paul and bahati are doing ) is the only way to go. Personally the first time I heard about the bongo gospel  outbreak rumors was after the release of sitolia  by willy paul and Gloria muliro  during one of willy pauls radio interviews. Bongo for those who don’t know is a style of music  (genre) that originates from our neighboring  country Tanzania. The word bongo comes the Swahili ubongo that means brain (mind). Tanzanians are the brain child of bongo flavor style of music just like the way we have genge and kapuka in kenya.

Now after the release of sitolia and subsequent hits then came wangu by bahati  and his big hits the gospel industry /ministry in Kenya took a totally different approach  and everyone was now into the new trend in town that is bongo gospel . beats were produced and songs were released , songs  that you could not tell anything about them content wise even after listening to them for about ten times a day.the artistes  drafted  lyrics that sound the same, beats that sound the same  accent that is so confused and lacks  its origin and as we speak the condition/situation is ridiculous and utter pathetic. So in a nutshell, bongo gospel as it is being said is a style (genre) of music that is being used by Kenyan artistes  with beats that mimic the Tanzanian bongo flavor music instrumentals.

So what’s wrong about this bongo gospel craze!

This is where it all ends and begins at the same time, music genre whether doing secular or gospel is the most basic fundamental of each musicians career. In gospel music genre seems to cause a lot of debate as to whether one has to use them or not but as far as music is concerned one has to identify their own style (genre) of music because that’s where their potential lies career wise. Now  back to our bongo gospel issue.

This bongo gospel thing (trend) poses a huge threat to our gospel musicians and is already causing more harm than good to the gospel music fraternity at the moment. And it is so unfortunate that the new crop of gospel  artistes seem to be heading to that direction oblivious of what its all about and whether it is necessary. Bongo gospel which is majorly  being used by male artistes  seems to threaten the gospel ministry because preaching has been abandoned. My fellow brothers and fellow ministers have forgotten their purpose of doing gospel music and now they all got a new fake irrelevant purpose and that is to sound bongoish.  The intention has shifted from preaching  gospel  through their music to who is sounding more bongo than who. Its evident and you can tell it all from their lyrics because they have betrayed them all. To my fellow artistes the focus is so much into the bongo flavor thing  that they have forgotten and neglected and abandoned  their ministerial calling that is to preach the word of God to being the next bongo gospel artiste in town. There is nothing new, no new ideas and  nothing in their songs that can inspire, transform or even minister to a soul leave alone challenging someone to give their lives to Jesus. instead what we get or hear is the misuse  and over recycling of some Swahili terms like Zingua, Mlofa , Msela, and other which you can tell are swahili or french .the Swahili names Maulana , Rabana , Rabuka, Jalali, Mola  and others  which refer  to God seem to make 90%. Of their content. Listen to such a song and you will totally be brain washed.

This is happening because the young lads seem to copy paste and ape what willy paul and bahati are singing and doing not forgetting that the role models of these two boys hail from Tanzania and are secular artistes to say the least. Everything  about willy paul and bahati is being copied, from what they sing to what they sound, what they dress to the photographic posses  they do.  These young lads seem to be forgetting that willy and bahati are living their lives, and  that in as much as they can admire them, there is no way they can be like them  or be like them . there will always be one bahati and one wiily paul. 

I mean you should get time and listen to some of these songs. You will wonder what is happening and how you can help these young boys get  out of this trap.

Just the other day, I was listening to my radio when a song of a certain artiste was played . Talk of voice bahati, lyrics bahati to make matters more than worse, the boy was pronouncing words just like bahati. Using r instead of l –jarari instead of Jalali, mora instead of mola, mrofa instead of mlofa e.t.c I was not shocked instead I pity the boy. The most surprising thing is that everybody is waking up straight forward heading to the bongo gospel  direction. Bongo gospel is like a tsunami. Its swinging all  gospel new born babies to one direction but the consequences of it are far from the end.

What must be done…

These breed of bongo gospel artistes need to be told the naked truth. They need to be told and informed of the dangers and harm they are doing to themselves, young boys get the mentality of this bongo thing. Get your mind from thinking that doing bongo gospel will make you famous or your musical career successful. Shift your focus from bongo gospel and instead focus on the word of God. It’s God who opens doors and not bongo gospel. It’s God that will make you successful and not bongo gospel.  Do gospel music content wise, drawing inspiration from the word of God and what God speaks unto your heart and God will do the rest.

Young lads be inspired by the word of God, listen to Gods voice, compose songs that will minister to souls and win souls to the kingdom of God. Bongo gospel is just nothing..
keep the focus..
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