Kenya Musicians Union

Kenya Musicians

Union

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About Us

KeMU is Kenya’s body for all Kenyan musicians.

The Kenya Musicians Unions' main objective is to protect and represent the economic and social interests of all Kenyan musicians and to promote the welfare of its members. There has been a protracted battle between a group of musicians and the Registrar of Trade Unions, since the first application for the registration of what was originally called the Kenya Musicians Association was made in 2007. After a conference by the International Federation of Musicians in Nairobi, Kenya in 2012 artists in Kenya have been working towards the formation of the Union. Katana, the bandleader of Them Mushrooms, is the interim General Secretary of the unregistered union and has been at the forefront of the struggle to legalize the body.

Mission: To safeguard our members' rights and promote their social-welfare

Vision: To exercise collective power to create a fairer (music) work environment for our members

Core values:

Teamwork: Through our individual strengths we energize our joint efforts to improve the lives of the members we serve.

Accountability: We hold ourselves personally and collectively responsible to do right and adhere to the Union’s ethical principles in an environment of openness and honesty.

Communication: We are committed to the timely and transparent exchange of information with members and encourage respectful interaction with them through listening, understanding and assumption of positive intent.

Member Services: We strive for the highest standards in member services delivery and seek continuous improvement through feedback from our members.

Responsiveness: We strive to respond timely and appropriately to members' queries.

KeMU was founded in 2007. It began its operations as the Kenya Musicians Alliance -KeMA. In 2008, KeMA led by its founding fathers – Mr.Tabu Osusa - a respected Kenyan music producer and Mr. John Katana - HSC a renowned Kenyan musician, agreed to transform the Association into a musicians Union. This gave birth to the present day Kenya Musicians Union and circuit training to yoga

KeMU has close to 410 members and is steadily growing its membership. The Union has a National Executive Councilwhich is the supreme governing body and it has three established branches countrywide. The designation of the national officers are; the Chairman, ViceChairman, General Secretary, Assistant General Secretary, Finance /Treasurer,Assistant Finance/ Treasurer, Publicity Secretary and the Assistant PublicitySecretary. Each of the Union’s branches are run by three officials respectively

What we Do

Charity

Conferences

Events

The Kenya musicians Union(KeMU) through a collaboration with the Hindu council of Kenya received and distributed food packages to some of its Nairobi members who have been adversely affected by the COVID 19 lockdown. The food packages were distributed to the KeMU members by KeMU national officials; John katana HSC, Sec. General and the AG. Chairman Juma Odemba HSC in the presence of Mr. Martin Mururia the Publicity Secretary and Mr. George Ouma KeMU'sTreasurer.

This is an ongoing exercise and KeMu will endeavour to seek more assistance from other well-wishers.

Let a Kenyan act be the show stopper;while the country is open to all kinds of a acts kemu believes strongly that Kenyan artist should be on the forefront of showcasing and event by Kenyans for the world.kenya has abundant musicians who can feature in such events and perform on equal measure. We urge the organisers to place a local act on equal poster promotional material to make it a Kenyan hosted event!

KeMU is affiliated to the International Music Council – IMC,through the African Music Council - AMC, has a twinning agreement with theBritish Musicians Union and is a member of the International Federation ofMusicians - FIM. Through the AMC and FIM, KeMU has a cordial work relationshipwith close to 20 musicians Unions in Africa as well as with other Unions inEurope, Asia and the Americas. KeMU has a cordial work relationship with Unionto Union of Sweden as well as the Swedish Musicians Federation. In conjunctionwith the above mentioned affiliates and partners, KeMU has held workshops,conferences and seminars in the regions it operates in which culminated in thetraining of the Union officials and dissemination of information to its steadily growing membership..

Our Team