They went down on their knees together during this year's Groove awards at KICC. They've gone on stage countless times and wowed the crowd for the past one year. But now they are no more.....wont even stand the sight of each other. This is Daddy Owen, the King of Kapungala and Alan Aron, the Mukorino singer with a swagger. Trouble started less than a month ago, after the Nibebe Tour held in Nakuru in July. They went on stage and performed their hit collabo 'Kiriro', but that was the last time they two went on stage together. Two Sundays ago, on August 15, things took a different turn during the Nibebe-Nyeri tour. Their differences over the song 'Kiriro' had gone to the climax. According to very close sources, Alan claims the sole rights of the song, while Owen claims he actually financed the whole 'Kiriro' project, from recording the track to the shooting of the video. Owen seems to be making a kill out of the song while Alan, the original composer, is still struggling to mint anything out of it.
So what happened in Nyeri?
The show was to start from 1pm to 6pm, which it did. Alan was backstage at 1pm sharp, and requested to sing early enough, together with the curtain-raisers, something that surprised the organisers. He was the fourth artiste to go on stage after Loise Kim and Ben Githae and a couple of other Nyeri-based artistes. On stage, he only performed 'Wemutheru' and 'Kiriro' and after that, he was out of Nyeri 20 minutes later. Owen on the other side, accompanied by Danco, came to the venue at 5pm, straight from Nairobi. When he went on stage, Owen and Danco only performed 'System ya Kapungala' and 'Tobina'. They never touched 'Kiriro', even when the fans requested for it. In a normal performance, Alan would go on stage first and get off, then when Owen's turn comes, he would perform 'System ya Kapungala', then invite Alan and sing 'Kiriro' together, and he finally finishes with 'Tobina'. And this happened in Nakuru, but not Nyeri.
The same scenario played at Safaricom Face-off concert last weekend, held in Nairobi's KICC. This time, Owen had a better excuse of coming to the event late; he was down with chicken pox.
The can of worms in gospel industry have began......watch this space for the juiciest of them all.
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