What is in the lyrics of the Music you listen to?

Music forms a large part of the entertainment industry. The art and science of doing music is in itself a formidable industry both locally and internationally. In fact music is part of our society. Almost every person, house, office, car has a gadget that generate music. It improves the ambience of the atmosphere, sets the mood in places and it is indeed food for the soul. Music has even been proven to have some therapeutic benefits to it. Therefore music is mutually beneficial to the artiste and the listener.

For music to be whole there are primary raw materials that are systematically inter-connected to deliver to the optimum. One of these aspects is the lyrics which forms written message. It informs the function of the song; to educate, inform, encourage, console, remind and so on. The rhythm is what generated the different genres of music like blues, country, rock, hip-hop and reggae; or in Kenya there are the like of genge, kapuka, Lingala, afro-fusion among others.  This means that lyrics can be sang in any of these genres without being changed. There are also other styles that are a hybrid of two or more genres.