The much anticipated Raha Fest performance for Otile Brown did not go very well as fans began to heckle at him while on stage.
In a video shared online, a section of the audience was captured waving their hands, gesturing him to leave the stage, as they shouted at him.
“I got you,” the singer said in an attempt to calm the audience but they would hear none of it.
Otile Brown is yet to speak on the encounter but the video has elicited mixed reactions with some linking the encounter to his remarks that Kenya has no international artist.
On the other hand, others linked that to his recent involvement with the late Brian Chira’s funeral. Here are some of the reactions.
Njoro The Comedian: Heartbreaking, how do you do this to our very own? It’s very sad…Enemies within.
African Mike: When you tear your own down meanwhile Nigerians support their own. That is why music in Kenya suffers this crap.
2mbili: I know that feeling hata balance huwezi endea kwa promoter.
Marvo on the beat: Am sure this is a result of his remarks on the interview about Kenya not having “International artists”
King Shiren: This is bad imagine this could be Otile doing good actually very good what went wrong.
Victor Kiptoo: Chira’s incident. Kenyans don’t love clout anymore.
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The heckling comes just days after Otile Brown admitted that his new album, Grace, was not doing very well.
“Not as I expected just to keep it real. My expectations were high but I also prepared too, coz a lot is going on in the industry right now. There are a lot of distractions. Sio kama two or three years ago when I dropped my first album. it was about the music and the artist. Right now kuna ma bloggers, vloggers, kuna TikTok starts kama wote,” he said after his short-lived performance at Brian Chira’s funeral.
On Sunday, through his Instagram, Otile Brown also threw a jab at those who were criticizing him.
“One thing I know is that I have never failed you. We are just living in different times. People are too busy, too lazy to listen and everything has to be presented to face and spoon fed. It’s a game of trick for attention and then drop..ain’t nothing wrong with that but if you are a real artists and everything you say in your songs mean something it can be a big challenge,” he wrote.