CDM KIRATU ( ORIGINAL) OFFICIAL

CDM KIRATU is a music legend. He was born in 1951 in Limuru, Kiambu
County, Kenya of peasant parents Njeri & Kiratu.
Once a street / parking boy he showed his special potential in music while at an
approved school (correction center) and later in High School. He wrote and
recorded his first composition MUGATHE KENYATTA while in the then Form
Six class in 1972.
A little different from other contemporary local artistes, CDM composes
music in his native language Gikuyu, in English and Swahili languages.

A multitalented individual he has served as Director of the
Music Copyright Society of Kenya {MCSK} [2007-2014] and as chairman of the Music Composers Association
{MCA} where he founded the Singer of the Year Awards [SOYA] Program.

This was after retiring from KRA where he headed the Anti-Counterfeit |Anti-Piracy Unit up to 2007.

CDM fondly named MZEE WA KAZI in the music circle still performs his NGOGOYO evergreen songs

Long live lovers of music!!!