He was a singer favoring the nyatiti (an eight-stringed lyre with its origins credited to the Luo, a tribe in Nyanza Kenya) as his characteristic instrument.
[2] Ayub Ogada was also an actor landing major roles in films including the Academy Award-winning Out of Africa (1985) and Kitchen Toto (1987).
In 1979, after leaving school, he co-founded the African Heritage Band, fusing traditional music with the sounds of rock and soul that Ogada and his bandmates heard regularly on the radio.
Playing several gigs including a concert in Rome in front of the Roman Colosseum for FAO and recording the Tanguru album[5] for Intuition.
[7] In July 2005, Ayub Ogada performed at the Live 8 concert Eden Project as the opening act with his band, Union Nowhere.
Ayub was also included in the making of Queen Elizabeth II's diamond jubilee song which was played by the Commonwealth band and Gary Barlow and Andrew Lloyd Webber directed it.
Disc two contains 're-imaginings' of various pieces by Count Dubulah / Dub Colossus, Peter Chilvers, Trevor Warren, Bernard O'Neill, and Oren Kaplan.