Markus Kamau with & Makadem – Imba Nairobi Lyrics

Catch a cab into the city
Take me back into time
I can hear the guitars playing
Every time I close my eyes

Kotoka Buru Buru (Mangelepa)
Mpaka South “C” (Simba Wanyika)
Wanacheza Otiende (Virunga)
Wanacheza Eastleigh (Super Mazembe)

From Buru Buru
To South C
They’re playing in Otiende
They’re playing in Eastleigh

Six guitars on the stage
At the Starlight tonight
Everybody is dancing
In the city of lights

Kutoka Langata (Maroon Commandos)
Mpaka South “C” (Kelly Brown)
Kutoka Kibera (Makonde)
Mpaka Eastleigh (Fadhili Williams)

Imba Nairobi
Imba
Nairobi
Imba Nairobi Imba we
Nairobi
Nairobi
Imba Nairobi Imba

Sing Nairobi
Nairobi
Etc.

Maisha ya musiki
Kila mtu ni star
Maisha ya msaani
Nyakati nyingi ni njaa

In the life of musicians
Everyone is a star
In the life of an artist
Much of the time you go hungry

Imba Buruburu (Samba Mapangala)
Imba South “C” (Fundi Konde)
Imba Otiende (Omollo Gabriel)
Imba Eastleigh (Kabasella)

Sing Buruburu
Sing South C
Sing Otiende
Sing Eastleigh

Siku hizi muko wapi
Wacheza ziki murwa
Nimetupa radio yangu
Nikiwatafuta

These days where are you?
Players of that beautiful music?
I’ve thrown out my radio
Looking for you

Imba wimbo mwigine (Twahir Mohammed)
Kusakata rhumba (Wally Amalemba)
Imba zilizopendwa (Fadhili Williams)
Moyo yetu kupaa

Sing another song
Of the rhumba type
Sing the songs we loved
To lift our hearts

Imba Nairobi
Imba
Nairobi
Imba Nairobi Imba we
Nairobi
Nairobi
Imba Nairobi Imba

Imba Nairobi
Imba
Nairobi
Imba Nairobi Imba we
Nairobi
Nairobi
Imba Nairobi Imba

Tuimbe, tucheze, tukatike
Kama unapenda Nairobi city tukumbuke
Starlight, Imbe, Hallians, Imbe,
1900 ikumbuke, Boomerang tukatike kalongolongo mama we naudongo
kalongolongo mama we naudongo

Imba
Nairobi
Imba Nairobi Imba we
Nairobi
Nairobi
Imba Nairobi Imba

Kamawajua wanamuziki wamjua nani? (Kakai Kalonzo)
Kamawajua wanamuziki wamjua nani? (Ochieng Kabasella)
Kamawajua wanamuziki wamjua nani?
(Okatch Biggy)
Kamawajua wanamuziki wamjua nani?
(Ally Makunguru)
Kamawajua wanamuziki wamjua nani?
(Joroge Benson)
Kamawajua wanamuziki wamjua nani?
(Lolova Makadem)
Kamawajua wanamuziki wamjua nani?
(Markus Kamau, dani ya nyumba)
Kamawajua wanamuziki wamjua nani?

Kamawajua wanamuziki wamjua nani?
(Kasongo)
Kamawajua wanamuziki wamjua nani?
(Boda Boda Band)
Kamawajua wanamuziki wamjua nani?
(Eh Gilbert, endelea na hiyo bass)