Artist Bio

Teto Tutuma and The Purple Warriors Band is a musical force that is gently stirring up in Nairobi Kenya. With sounds inspired by the magical spirit of the maasai plains, acoustic riffs blend with soft african percussion,’chivoti’ and in fuse with maasai chants they create a sound ‘Nation’ newspaper once described as having got ‘an international appeal’ .

From his humble beginnings in a village deep in the heartland of Maasai, Teto Tutuma was lucky to have a musical mother, who inspired him to sing and play music from a very early age. It was not until he moved to Nairobi that his career began. Time spent at the Kenya National Theatre bore fruit when he picked up the guitar.

Teto Tutuma spent years searching his heart to bring forth the style of music which would reflect his uniqueness of coming from one of the deepest and oldest traditional societies in the world, yet at the same time being a contemporary musician in a modern day society of Nairobi. A major break in Teto’s career was in 2006 when he became a finalist for ‘Spotlight on Kenyan Music’, a project of the Alliance Francaise de Nairobi.

His music has taken him all around Kenya, as well as mixed him with great artists. Performances include numerous concerts around Nairobi, the grandest being the World Social Forum held at Uhuru Park Nairobi in 2007. Teto is touring schools and colleges in Kajiado County with his ‘Modern Maasai Tour’. On April 6th 2012 he released an album called ‘Nosim Ai’ (my company)