D.O. Misiani has been played on NTS in shows including Happy Death w/ Ed Horrox, featured first on 23 October 2020. Songs played include Giko Piny.

Daniel Owino Misiani (1940-2006).

Popularly known as DO Misiani, he can be truly regarded as the father of benga music which is a fusion of traditional Luo harp ( nyatiti) beats and some modern rumba inputs. Misiani was born in Shirati, Northern Tanzania, on 22 February 1940. This factor was to later play a role in his political as well as artistic life, as he was severally denied Kenyan citizenship by the Moi regime because of his, (Misiani’s) apparent political…