Mrezi

Hamisi, also known as Mrezi, is a musician from Silaloni, Kwale County. His birth place is the heartland of the music genre Mtamwi. Learning various instruments at a young age, Mrezi already started performing in primary school. After finishing 7th grade, he joined Gwaru wa Baya’s band Kenya Mtamwi in 1993 as a marimba player. Mrezi also holds knowledge about other percussive instruments from his region, e.g. he can make and play an uteo, a coastal shaker of broken bottle glass, and he knows stomping, which, when musicians layer multiple slippers over their feet, can be recorded as a strong sound that sends studio walls shaking.

Experience Mrezi at Pwani Residency Performance