Musician Karungari Mungai alias Karun who rose to fame while in the music group Camp Mulla has expressed the frustrations Kenyan artists face in the entertainment industry.
In an interview on The Singleton Stories with the popular Kenyan storyteller Biko Zulu, Karun said the Kenyan music industry is not yet at a place where it fully supports artists grow and hone their talents.
The RnB singer and songwriter said, “I’ve been in the music industry for 11 to 12 years and it still makes no sense. It’s still extremely difficult to continue thriving here. And so the few selected ‘successful’ artists that you can say are making it, it still baffles me that we can keep going because the industry isn’t very forgiving.”
According to her, Kenyan music artists put a lot into their music, time, money, effort, and creativity, but eventually it stops making sense.
Karun opened up by saying she had to deal with the different ways fame affected her years later after she rose to it.
The singer expressed, "Trolling is a thing now. Everyone knows what trolling is, unlike back then when the internet was still young and people felt entitled to say anything about you. I felt like I was thrust into that world overnight.”
Karun started singing in her teenage years on Camp Mulla, where she was able to gather a large following with her fellow group members.
She moved to Boston, the USA to further her studies after the group’s unexpected split in 2013. She made her return in 2017 and soon after gave birth.
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