There is also Benga in the province of Nyanga, see Benga, Gabon The Nyanga province is one of Gabons nine provinces. ...

Benga is a musical genre of Kenyan popular music. It evolved between the late 1940s and late 1960s, in Kenya's capital city of Nairobi. In the 1940s, the African Broadcasting Service in Nairobi aired a steady stream of soukous, South African kwela, Zairean finger-style guitar and various kinds of Cuban dance music. There were also popular folk songs of Kenya's Luo and Kikuyu peoples. Musical genres are categories which contain music which share a certain style or which have certain elements in common. ... Popular music is music belonging to any of a number of musical styles that are accessible to the general public and mostly distributed commercially. ... Nairobi is the capital city of Kenya. ... // Soukous is a musical genre that originated in the Congos during the 1930s and early 1940s, and which has gained popularity throughout Africa. ... Kwela is a happy, often pennywhistle based, street music from southern Africa with jazzy underpinnings. ... Zaire (spelled Zaïre in French) was the name of the Democratic Republic of the Congo between 1971 and 1997. ... Fingerpicking, or playing fingerstyle, is a technique for playing the guitar, or some other stringed instrument using the fingertips and/or fingernails, rather than with a plectrum (or pick). It is used for classical guitar, and some other acoustic styles, but it has found its way into other genres as... Dance music is music composed, played, or both, specifically to accompany social dancing. ... The Luo are a people of Kenya, they live on the shores and hinterland of Lake Victoria. ... The Kĩkũyũ (otherwise spelled Gĩkũyũ) ethnic group is Kenyas most populous ethnic group. ...

The Luo of Kenya have long played an eight-string lyre called nyatiti, and guitarists from the area sought to imitate the instrument's syncopated melodies. In benga, the electric bass guitar is played in a style reminiscent of the nyatiti. A lyre is a stringed musical instrument well known for its use in Classical Antiquity. ... Nyatiti is an eight-stringed instrument played by plucking the strings. ... In music, syncopation is the stressing of a normally unstressed beat in a bar or the failure to sound a tone on an accented beat. ... Look up melody in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... -1...

In 1967, the first major benga band, Shirati Jazz, was formed by Daniel Owino Misiani. The group launched a string of hits that were East Africa's biggest songs throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Shirati Jazz's biggest rival is Victoria Jazz, formed in 1972 by Ochieng Nelly Mengo and Collela Mazee. Despite many personnel changes, Victoria Jazz remained popular throughout the 1970s, when the Voice of Kenya radio station pushed an onslaught of East African pop. Another famous benga bend Migori Super Stars was formed in the mid 70s and was lead by Musa Olwete which later split to form another popular benga band Migori Super Stars C with musicians such as Joseph Ochola (Kasongo Polo Menyo), Onyango Jamba, Ochieng' Denge denge and others. Daniel Owino Misiani (1940-2006) was a musician from Kenya. ... Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC) is the state run media (Radio and Television) organization. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards and appeal to a wider international audience, this article may require cleanup. ...

Modern benga artists include Kapere Jazz Band and the rootsy Ogwang Lelo Okoth.