Nyashinski-King of Shin City Experience
Nyamari Ongegu aka Nyashinski is no stranger to the entertainment scene as he has been in the musical game for 20 years now on a professional note. He started off by singing with the Kleptomaniax/KGB crew where he was the lead rapper at the Ogopa Deejays studio. His humble beginnings made him travel to USA to study and work as a truck driver for ten years after all connections he made.
He then returned to kenya to continue pursuing his music career, having landed a huge deal as the brand ambassador for Samsung Kenya, got to work with huge African and international stars like Yemi Alade, Mafikizolo and Trey Songz plus Sauti Sol amongst many others for the Coke Studio project.
He got married to a beautiful young nandi lady called Zia Bett and they were blessed with a handsome Babyboy about two years ago. Fast forward to 2022, where he held the first ever holographic experience, shin city-a concept he produced to invite fans into his mind and the world at large. He put his heart, mind, and soul into that performance with all forms of art and creativity.
The carnivore grounds were the main venue for the concert and was divided into two sections -shin city and the main concert arena. Shin city was an actual city(artistic representation of one) with street signs everywhere, mostly named after his songs and other things he’s passionate about, Glory Street and Fashion Street etec,a huge big black Mercedes Benz G Wagon was parked at the entrance like the one in the video ‘Black’ with a cute little sign next to it that explained what a machine like that means to him as a representation of who he is and what he can be.
At the center of the grounds, was a cute statute of Nyashinski in huge Barmuriat size shoes, a long jacket that went up to below his knees, geeky glasses, and dreadlocks, with a sign to top of his head proclaiming ‘Welcome to Shin City.’ This animated character was called ‘Chilah Man,’ and the board
next to its aid it represented shinski’s journaey, compounded with all the difficulties he has been through to get to where he is today. There was a red photo booth with a vintage telephone in it, with swings, a small podium with a phone mounted on a stand that kept rotating. There was a glory church-soul of shin city, carried the hope in the vision, reminding his fans to always find inner peace when external forces overwhelm them. ‘A few people got married there’ but became irrelevant outside the venue. It was a well put three-hour performance and dialogue between Nyashinski and God, dressed in a black vest and all performing all hit songs like too much on my mind,’ ‘GOAT’ amongst many others.
Despite having no curtain raisers, he called Femi One to do the song ‘Proper’ with him onstage, Chris Kaiga with ‘Hapo Tu’ alongside his diaries, giving the revelers a 20-year lesson in Kenyan music. Even after he finished performing his last song, the crowd was screaming for more hit songs like ‘Fathela,’ and he was quite stunned by the crowd response. Both VIP and Regular section were totally sold out which was quite impressive. The show scripting was done by Ian ‘Sketch’ Arunga, musical direction by cedo, choreography, seamless flow of scenes, Yash and his team put their best leg forward.
Bonus information: Nyashinski is a work of art, The G.O.A.T., a genius, a masterpiece aka shinski…. he is immortal…with a representation of him as a hologram on the LCD screens plus having wardrobe changes onstage… (pure brilliance).
-Lovers Rock-most romantic place at the shin city concert -Huge celebs in aatendance were njugush, Big Ted, Nameless, Wahu, Syd, Mr. Lenny, Jacky vike. -Songs spanning a decade were sang throughout the show Tuendelee, Bado Niko, Kanyagia, Oh baby.
-Partners for the shin city live experience were-Johnnie Walker, Safaricom PLC, Boomplay musicKE, Tokea Africa, Tusker Lager.
