Tabu Osusa

Tabu Osusa (born 21 July 1954) is a Kenyan author and music producer and founder of Ketebul Music. In 1977 he briefly joined the Les Kinois Band. Since then, Osusa has been a composer, record artist, songwriter, promoter, band director and producer. In 2007, Tabu Osusa founded Ketebul Music. He is the acting director of the organization, assisted by some people with different knowledge and skills in the wider field of arts and culture. The president of Ketebul Music is the Kenyan cartoonist Maddo. Tabu Osusa was the lead author of Shades of Benga: The Story of Popular Music in Kenya 1946-2016. The book published in August 2017 traces the origins of Kenyan popular music until the end of the Second World War until today.