What a shame! ‘Gudi Gudi’ hit makers Everlast, Naiboi and Kristoff travel all the way to Eldoret just to be conned and treated like sewage rats by a promoter
‘Gudi Gudi’ is arguably the biggest hit song of 2016; the song has made Everlast, Naiboi and Kristoff become some of the most sought after musicians in Kenya.
The six musicians travelled to Eldoret town last week to perform at Club 411 on Saturday March 4th 2017 in a party dubbed ‘The Red White Affair’.
Everlast struck a deal with the promoter -Joel Kelvin Mukoma who paid them a down payment of an undisclosed amount before they performed. Mr. Mukoma was to pay the artists a further Kes 64,000 after they performed.
But the cunning promoter didn’t live up to his end of the bargain, he vanished before paying Kes 64,000 while the six musicians were on stage performing. The artists’ manager Mr. Julius Guya tried calling Mukoma but he didn’t pick up his calls. He has since refused to pick his calls to date.
Everlast, Naiboi and Kristoff carried on with their performance despite being informed that the crafty promoter had gone underground.
The six musicians revealed that they sensed there was something amiss about Kelvin Mukoma even before he conned them, apparently the promoter couldn’t even offer them a decent meal and accommodation when they arrived in Eldoret a day before their performance.
Everlast through their lawyer wrote to Kelvin Mukoma instructing him to pay them the Kes 64,000 failure to which they will institute appropriate legal action to enforce their agreement.
Artists should be very careful when dealing with promoters, chunga usigongwe!
