Kenyans from all walks of life have pulled together to celebrate Bien Aime Baraza in the most wonderful way following his win at the recently held Trace Awards.
The Nairobi hitmaker was recently handed his award and shared some details about his journey to the highly acclaimed award.
“Touchdown with a win! 🏆🇰🇪 @officialkenyaairways has been part of this journey from the start, flying us around the world to represent The 254, and this time, straight to Zanzibar to bring home the TRACE Award! Honored to win and keep raising the flag high. #PrideOfAfrica ✈️. #TRACEAwards”
As the only Kenyan nominee in his category, Bien triumphed over Tanzanian stars Diamond Platnumz, Harmonize, Marioo, Zuchu, and Nandy, Ethiopian artist Rophnan, and Ugandan singer Joshua Baraka.
This has elicited a lot of national pride from Kenyans who have launched a heartfelt marketing campaign to call on Kenyans to willingly increase Bien’s following on social media.
On TikTok, Bien has a following of 593.6K, his YouTube has 246K subscribers, and Instagram has 733K followers.
Read some of those comments below from Kenyans trying to get Bien more following:
🦋 hairstylist nafula…😊 kama umefollow Bien Leo weka ❤️
🦋 MC ScouseSimba 🇺🇸 🇰🇪… I have started a 1Million campaign for u bro. Ur at 520K now soon we are getting to 1Million bro. Great touch with bringing back Sauti Sol. Let’s represent Kenya 🇰🇪 to the world. Congratulations 🎊
🦋 Terence Kim 🇰🇪… yani Bahati akona 1.5M subs pale YouTube. So embarrassing guys, let’s get Bien to 2M 😤
🦋 AVILA k introvert… #Follow Bien, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, done
🦋 nash.natalie… Acha niamshe kila mtu najua ifike 1M😫
🦋 Amon11.11😎🤏… I followed Bien today
🦋 🌸Dianadee❤🌸… flowers for Bien❤🌸💜
🦋 johntez… sasa ukiulizwa mbona haujafollow Bien utasemaje?
🦋 cherono☘️… si umepea wakenya kiburi 😂. We are soooo proud of you, and us Kenyans, we are ready to support you. This is just the beginning. Greatness awaits you 🙌✊✊
Josssie 👑… na kama hujamfollow bado, do it. Huyu lazima afike 1M🦋
Trace Awards
The award ceremony was held on February 26 in Zanzibar.
There were 28 categories honouring the African continent’s most popular music genres and talent, with a live broadcast in over 200 countries in English, French, and Portuguese.
The event sadly experienced a setback when high winds disrupted the ceremony before kickoff. The strong winds saw the ceremony pushed back to 8 PM GMT and 6:30 PM GMT for the Red Carpet.
The livestream event also saw disruptions, with online viewers left disappointed as all the broadcast channels couldn’t proceed as planned
The audience got to enjoy performances from Rwanda’s Bruce Melodie, who was joined by Tanzania’s Harmonize to perform their hit Zanzibar, a song released a year ago.
Nigerian artistes Rema, Yemi Alade, Diamond Platnumz, Ali Kiba, Zuchu, Marioo, Fally Ipupa, Innos B, Gaz Mawete, Titom and Yuppe, and Senegalese Wally Seck all took to the stage, thrilling fans.
by MAUREEN WARUINGE
