Mrtzcmp3


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 [1]. He is a pioneer urban style artist in Kenya and topped the Kenyan music scene for a while in the late 90's [2]. 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 [3]. Guest artist on the album were Fiona Mungai (of Shadz O Blak) and Eric Wainaina [4]. 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 [5]. At the 1997 Kisima Music Awards, Hardstone won the Best new artist of the year category [6]. He recorded a second album known as Ziwe Nkulu, but it was left unreleased while he moved to the United States in 1998[7]. He left Kenya to enhance his career, but since then has been without much success [2]. In 2003 he released another album Hardstory [2]. The song Uhiki (Pinye's remix) was also on African Groove compilation released by Putumayo World Music in 2003 [8]. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

Related Artist

Top Tracks

Copyright © 2019 | Mrtzcmp3