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Yes, your talent can earn you a decent income

Cabinet Secretary Ministry of Information and Communications Joe Mucheru

In my childhood, my family listened to music from vinyl records. With the vinyl records all I had to do was identify the exact grooves where my favourite song started to listen to it. The turntables were a prominent feature during Christmas.

In my youth, we listened to compact cassettes or tapes as we called them. These were handier than the vinyl records but it was harder to pick out our favourite songs. This is where biro pens came in handy for winding up the tapes to get to the song we were looking for. For those that had a walkman, the portable cassette player with headphones, entertainment on the move became a new trend.

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