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KeruBo has more than 20 years of experience performing all over the world in music festivals. Her love for music began at a very young age. She is the middle child of seven children who sang a cappella together with their parents as well as in church choirs and singing groups. Her style is a blend of African Traditional Music, with inflections of Brazilian Samba/Bossanova, Jazz, and Blues.
HALI YA UTU
ALBUM - 2021
KeruBo’s debut album titled "Hali ya Utu" is Swahili for the state of humanity. She challenges the human condition and the need to reconnect to what "utu", or brotherhood really means. The album is a culmination of years of writing and performing that speaks to KeruBo's mission for social justice. Every song tells a story, from lamenting the struggles of life, to encouraging words of self-acceptance.
Chanjo
SINGLE - 2021
An internationally acclaimed song about the COVID-19 vaccine in Swahili with subtitles in English.
Forty Acres
and a Mule
SINGLE - 2021
This song and video were inspired by mankind’s atrocities to Mother Earth and humanity. It highlights the deceit practiced against African Americans to take away their farmland. The title references the Special Field Order 15 (General Sherman, 1865), which set aside and reserved "...[t]he islands from Charleston south, the abandoned rice-fields along the rivers for thirty miles back from the sea, and the country bordering the Saint Johns River [Florida]..." for the settlement, African Americans made free by the Civil War.
The history of the loss of those lands is just one example in a wider effort to deny prosperity to a racial group. Nelson Mandela provides some context “For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”
hakuna lolote
SINGLE - 2020
A song about the power of solidarity during these trying times (2020 and COVID 19). Funded in part by a grant from Artplace America to the Clemmons Family Farm and the A Sense of Place project. With special thanks to the New Americans of the Winooski community.