Extra Golden – The united nations of music

The story behind our band, Extra Golden, is an unlikely collaboration between musicians who may seem, on the surface, to have little in common. Half the band comes from the Kenyan tradition of benga, a euphoric dance-oriented guitar-band style that emerged in the 1970s as the national beat of Kenya. The other members of Extra Golden had played in an American rock band that had experimented with creating a new take on heavy blues-rock. Musical projects of this nature are often seen as attempts to...

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