CDM KIRATU ( ORIGINAL) OFFICIAL 🇰🇪

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CDM KIRATU is a music legend. He was born in 1951 in Limuru, Kiambu County, Kenya of peasant parents Njeri & Kiratu. Once a street / parking boy he showed his special potential in music while at an approved school (correction center) and later in High School. He wrote and recorded his first composition MUGATHE KENYATTA while in the then Form Six class in 1972. A little different from other contemporary local artistes, CDM composes music in his native language Gikuyu, in English and Swahili languages. A multitalented individual he has served as Director of the Music Copyright Society of Kenya {MCSK} [2007-2014] and as chairman of the Music Composers Association {MCA} where he founded the Singer of the Year Awards [SOYA] Program. This was after retiring from KRA where he headed the Anti-Counterfeit |Anti-Piracy Unit up to 2007. CDM fondly named MZEE WA KAZI in the music circle still performs his NGOGOYO evergreen songs Long live lovers of music!!!