Irene Labdi Ommes, 31, known as LABDI, is a Kenyan musician and composer, and a pioneering female Orutu player breaking cultural taboos around the traditional instrument. The orutu, a one-stringed Luo ...
Nairobi — The man with the 'orutu' plays the stringed instrument shaking his head like a monitor lizard in contrast to the Japanese woman's graceful plucking of the 'koto'. Every time Japanese ...
Being a female Orutu player in Kenya 05:10 Equality Kenya 06/02/2023 The Orutu is a traditional stringed instrument from the Luo community of Kenya and historically only be played by men. Even today, ...