By Kiundu Waweru
For those of you who remember the 1980s and 1990s club scene, disco and jam sessions, when your blood sizzled hot and you danced to funk, soul and rock all night long, brace yourself again! The 1980s and 1990s dance stars, together with the DJs are set to take back the hand of time in a get together party, Funky Soul Train of the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s.
Taking you through the oldies at Carnivore’s Simba Saloon tomorrow is Paul ‘Cracker’ Munyao, the events organiser and winner of the 1988 Win-a-Motorbike competition, Charles Ng’ang’a, Cracker Junior, Kanda King and Yellow Man, undoubtedly big names in their time, together with the group Soukous Party. The DJs set to spin the funky souls are DJ Adams, DJ Hussein Abdalla, DJ Karis, DJ Mdosi and DJ Stone.
Cracker says the get together is meant to bring the dance and DJs together once again, reviving what they enjoyed, and to show the youth today that dancing should be creative art, and that you should have your own unique dancing style. "During our time, there was no copying dance styles, everyone came up with his own style and man, were we creative."
But if nothing else, Cracker, 46, says the soul train will showcase one thing — that age is but a number!
The dance and DJ legends shot to fame during the much hyped win a motor bike competition in 1988 and the build up to Win A Car competitions of early 1990s, initiated by Peter Mwenda, the then popular Club Boomerang manage.
Cracker had organised a Soul Train Party at Carnivore on July 19 and it was low key. "It was a Sunday and the people who turned up demanded we do a similar thing and on October 24. We will be at Carnivore from 6pm till dawn."
