Lazy P-Unit on a roll

• P-Unit say that a lot of things have been said and misrepresented about them by the media and the public.
• They credit, Nonini for helping them start as a group and getting them the name.

• Former Home Boyz producer Eric Musyoka to produce group's songs.

What do you say of a group that has lazily produced just two songs in two years but has gone on to win five awards for those two songs? Tenaciously lazy.

We are talking of the trio P-Unit whose Silazima and Kushoto Kulia have brought the lads to the national limelight.

Gabriel Kangondu, Boniface Chege and Francis Hamisi all better known as Gabbu, Bonni and Frasha respectively form the group.

They say that a lot of things have been said and misrepresented about them by the media and the public.

The first misinformation was that they were Nonini’s band but Gabbo explains that the trio has been in music for a while individually and had known each other long before they ventured to music.

Freelance act

Bonni and Frasha knew each other from Athi River where Frasha went to school near Bonni’s mother’s house.

After completing secondary school, Frasha went to Kenya Medical Training College (KMTC) in Kenyatta where he met Gabbu who lived near by.

“You can see and the issue of being brought together by Nonini is not true,” explains Frasha.

They, however credit, Nonini for helping start them as a group and getting them the name.

Before Nonini’s intervention, they were a freelance act. Gabbu was already recording with Calif Records as part of a group called Raptures and even released the single Paulina.

He met Nonini at Calif and introduced him to the other two.

When they met Nonini, he wanted to start a group and company he called Pro Habo Unit. Because the boys had no name, he decided to christen them P-Unit.

“That was never to mean that he owned us, we were just freelance artistes,” says Bonni.

Ambition

Together, they went on to record party anthems Si Lazima followed by Kushoto Kulia.

However, when they recorded another song with DNA at Jomino Records everybody’s assumption was that they had broken away from Nonini and joined DNA of the ‘Banjuka-tu’ fame.

“As freelance artistes, we can record with anyone and that is what we did,” says Gabbu.

Now their ambition is to take Kenyan music to a level that no other artiste has done in recent years.

The man to see them through their dream is former Home Boyz producer Eric Musyoka.

At Homeboyz Studio, Musyoka produced songs for Nikki, Nameless, Bamboo and AY amongst others but will be best remembered for Keroro and Furahiday by rapper Nonini and the later featuring Nameless.

Musyoka is back from the US after a two-year course in audio engineering armed with know-how and studio equipment in readiness to launch his own studio – Decimal Records Inc.

Of his first signing, P-Unit, he says they have worked on a musical and marketing strategy that will definitely succeed.

“P’Unit is the best group in Kenya today, however, they have not really defined themselves and find direction for their music. This is what I want to do,” explains Musyoka.