The name Subukia, a town at the base of the Rift Valley escarpments, always gets mentioned when one talks about Kikuyu music. The town rivals Murang’a in producing Kikuyu musicians who compose both gospel and contemporary music.
In Subukia, the most popular is the Salim family, which has produced the highest number of musicians who tapped their talents from Joseph Salim, their father, who started his music career in the early 1970s.