Ondi

In her 2019 debut EP, Tangawizi, Ondi shares stories on losing and re-discovering adventure, love and identity. The music is an eclectic mix of jazz, reggae, and Kenyan folk. The six track record, composed, sung, and performed by Ondi, features the ukulele and guitar and emotive lyrics in English and Swahili documenting the journey through song or spoken word. Tangawizi is special because it was recorded, mixed and mastered and distributed through crowd funding and collaborations between different artists and companies.


Ondi, a lawyer, teacher, mother, writer, and musician, loves sharing stories through music, and has done so around the world; from the streets of Rome, galleries of Spoleto, by the River Nile in Uganda, to many a stage in Nairobi, Limuru and Mombasa in Kenya. Ondi has shared the stage with music greats Nina Ogot, Alsarah and the Nubatones, Harry Kimani, Eric Wanaina, and Kalamashaka amongst others.

'The sultry, strange and eclectic singer,' Up Magazine Nairobi
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‘Ondi is ‘a musical, poetic, intellectual, daydreamer,' What's Good Network's Nairobi.
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‘Tangawizi, the EP, as well as the process of creating it, is a journey… of losing myself, of wandering, of finding, of sharing,” Ondi