Hardstone
Hardstone
Genres: reggae, chillout, pop, lounge, africa
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About Hardstone
Hardstone (real name Harrison Ngunjiri, born 1977) is a Kenyan musician. His music is a mixture of ragga, reggae and hiphop. He sings in English, Swahili and Kikuyu languages . He is a pioneer urban style artist in Kenya and topped the Kenyan music scene for a while in the late 90's . He emerged in 1997 with popular hit "Uhiki" and an album named "Nuting but de Stone", produced by Tedd Josiah of Sync Sound Studios and released internationally by German-based Kelele Records . Guest artist on the album were Fiona Mungai (of Shadz O Blak) and Eric Wainaina . The album contained two versions of he Uhiki his, original and Pinye's remix. The latter version contains samples of Sexual Healing by Marvin Gaye . At the 1997 Kisima Music Awards, Hardstone won the "Best new artist of the year" category . He recorded a second album known as "Ziwe Nkulu", but it was left unreleased while he moved to the United States in 1998 . He left Kenya to enhance his career, but since then has been without much success . In 2003 he released another album "Hardstory" . The song "Uhiki (Pinye's remix)" was also on "African Groove" compilation released by Putumayo World Music in 2003 . From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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