Elani Speaks:Music group shares heart-breaking story revealing how they were robbed

Wednesday, January 13, 2016 - Popular Kenyan music group Elani has finally revealed why they have been silent over the past couple of months.

Through a video shared on social media, the Jana Usiku hit makers, who have been ranked as one of the most talented and promising music groups in the country, disclosed that stopped releasing new songs after realizing that were being conned by the body in charge of remitting royalties to local musicians, MCSK.

According to Elani, MCSK officials have been deliberately stealing their monies effectively ensuring that they run into debts and thereby crippling their operations.

The group took issue with the shocking fact they were paid a mere Kshs 31,000 as royalties for the year 2014 despite the fact that the group had at least 5 mega hit songs on constant replay in local TV and Radio stations.

In comparison, musician Jaguar received royalties amounting to millions of shillings despite having only two songs on rotation in the same TV & radio stations. According to the 3-member band, this huge discrepancy led the discovery that something was totally amiss.

Things would later get more confusing after Elani approached the MSCK demanding to see the music logs – documents that show how often music was played on local radio stations. To their surprise, the music group was given two different sets of logs for the same period of time. While explaining this occurrence, MCSK claimed that they don’t monitor all radio stations adding that many stations give false logs.

Elani then decided to go to the radio stations to establish the truth but soon after MCSK got wind of their action, they called the group’s lead vocalist, Brian and gave him Ksh300, 000 as compensation.

This shocking turn of events left Elani questioning the transparency of the organization that was established to ensure that artists reap the benefits of their hard work.

Elani now joins a long list of local musicians who have expressed their dissatisfaction with MCSK’s operation. Others who have accused the organization of wrong doing include, Ringtone and Pitson – who shocked his fans after revealing that he was paid Ksh5,000 in royalties for his mega hit song  Lingala ya Yesu.

Watch as Elani explain their heart breaking story: