Award
winning artist Sauti Sol celebrate more than ten years of friendship
this year on the 30th of July. What began as a high school friendship
ended up forming the a multi-award winning afro pop group and the best
group in Africa based on a lifelong bond between brothers.
‘Savara and I meet in our first year of high school but we did not like each other. We didn’t talk again up until we were in form three and we were in the school talent platform called “Voices in the Light”. Chimano joined us in form three and since he was small, people bullied him. We took it upon ourselves to protect him and we’ve been friends ever since…Plus he was way cooler than us thus we wanted hangout with him to boost our status. ,’ Bien said (Songwriter, guitarist and performer).
“Real
friends push each other to achieve greatness together. From the moment
we met, we knew what and where we wanted be in future. The fact that we
had a common goal and the desire to succeed helped us to work harder and
persist in our endeavors. ” Added, Savara Mudigi (Producer, vocalist
and drummer, Sauti Sol)‘Savara and I meet in our first year of high school but we did not like each other. We didn’t talk again up until we were in form three and we were in the school talent platform called “Voices in the Light”. Chimano joined us in form three and since he was small, people bullied him. We took it upon ourselves to protect him and we’ve been friends ever since…Plus he was way cooler than us thus we wanted hangout with him to boost our status. ,’ Bien said (Songwriter, guitarist and performer).
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The
group was formed in 2005 as an a cappella group by Bien-aime Baraza,
Willis Austin Chimano and Savara Mudigi,, who had met at the Upper Hill
High School and performed in Voices in the Light, a music group at the
school as SAUTI. They then met guitarist Polycarp “Fancy Fingers”
Otieno, who attended Strathmore School, at the Alliance française in
Nairobi, where they would frequent and decided to form Sauti (Swahili
for “voice”) and immediately wrote their first song, “Mafunzo ya Dunia”
(Literally: lessons of the world), which would later feature in their
debut studio album Mwanzo. The group later added the Spanish word “SOL”
(sun) to their name and formed Sauti Sol ( Voices in the Sun).
“The
journey to becoming the biggest group in Africa has been all smooth as
many would think. Being a quartet made up of four different and strong
personalities mean we all have to compromise every now and then to make
it work. Like another friendship or relationship, we’ve had our fair
share of disagreements, fights and quarrels but we always make it work
at the end of the day because; before all the fame and money, all we had
was each other.” Said, Polycarp (Guitarist, Producer, Composer and
Arranger – Sauti Sol)
“Yes,
i am the smallest in the group in regard to my body stature but i also
happen to have the biggest voice so no one can bully me (😂😂😂). Our
bond made us more than brother to a point where my mom could whip Savara
if he grew some horns (Giggles).
You
can tell by the reaction we get on social media every time we post a
throwback picture of us that the our image has really metamorphosed over
time. For most parts of our cacareer coming up we used to live
together. This meant even sharing colognes and outfits 😂😂😂 so that we
could all look the part. I wouldn’t trade those moments and these guys
for anything in the world. ”Chimano concluded
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