{"id":27859,"date":"2021-05-17T17:38:59","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T17:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/?p=27859"},"modified":"2021-05-17T17:38:59","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T17:38:59","slug":"uk-envoy-jane-marriot-wows-with-firirida-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/uk-envoy-jane-marriot-wows-with-firirida-dance","title":{"rendered":"UK Envoy Jane Marriot Wows With Firirida Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AfricaPress-Kenya:<\/strong> UK High Commissioner to Kenya Jane Marriot on Monday, May 17, broke into a dance during a school tour in Nakuru County.<\/p>\n<p>In a video seen by africa-press, the soft-spoken diplomat took to the dance floor to break a sweat to\u00a0the popular\u00a0<em>F<\/em><em>iririda<\/em>\u00a0song\u00a0while on tour at\u00a0Keriko Secondary in Njoro.<\/p>\n<p>In the 30-second clip, the\u00a0UK national, dressed in a blue flare dress, is seen attempting to mimic the song&#8217;s popular dance routine.<\/p>\n<p>She was being choreographed by a student at the school dressed in a white shirt and green\u00a0checkered skirt.<\/p>\n<p>The song went viral across the country in February 2021 &#8211; more than 36 years since its official release and spun a number of memes from stars.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;Firirida time&quot; United Kingdom High Commissioner to Kenya Jane Marriott breaks into a dance at Keriko Secondary in Njoro, Nakuru County <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wp2eko2fQC\">pic.twitter.com\/wp2eko2fQC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Citizen TV Kenya (@citizentvkenya) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/citizentvkenya\/status\/1394288000700452864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 17, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Some politicians even adopted the tune as background music for their supercharged rallies.<\/p>\n<p>Towards the end of that month, Murang&#8217;a County Members of the County Assembly (MCAs) broke into the dance after passing the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) bill.<\/p>\n<p>The song was recorded by\u00a0Kikuyu vernacular musician Dick Munyonyi in 1986 who was a relatively successful musician at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Munyonyi, a renowned musician who sang at\u00a0President Uhuru Kenyatta&#8217;s wedding, lost his voice just a few years after the release of the song in 1986 when he was diagnosed with tuberculosis.<\/p>\n<p>He would post the song on YouTube in 2012, many years after he had lost his livelihood as a singer.<\/p>\n<p>In January, the song had only garnered\u00a0a paltry 1,000 views since it was uploaded in 2012\u00a0but by February 23, the song had slightly less than 500,000 views.<\/p>\n<p>unfortunately, the singer did not make any earnings from the song in the first two weeks of its re-emergence until Kenya Film Classification Board (KFCB) CEO Ezekiel Mutua intervened and a fundraiser was held on the musician&#8217;s behalf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AfricaPress-Kenya: UK High Commissioner to Kenya Jane Marriot on Monday, May 17, broke into a dance during a school tour in Nakuru County. 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