Music Needs No Visa

Still taken from Blinky Bill’s ‘ATIE’ video OneBeat 2013 Fellow Blinky Bill (also known as Bill Sellanga) is a Kenyan producer, songwriter and member of the trailblazing collective Just a Band. We asked him to look back on his musical inspiration and experience at OneBeat 2013, as part of our upcoming OneBeat Zine.   “Growing up, my diet was a disparate musical cocktail made up from the Congolese Lingala music listened to by my father and my mother’s predilection for gospel music of any kinds. My siblings and I ingested this, yet we yearned for more. We took to stealing my father’s radio from behind his locked bedroom door so that we could listen to pop music over the airwaves: a mix of Michael Jackson and American Top 40 alongside funky African musicians like Chicco and San Fan Thomas. I graduated from the OneBeat Class of 2013 and it’s been one of the […]