Tedd Josiah

Tedd Josiah

Tedd Josiah (born 1970) is a music producer from Kenya. He started as a musician, first briefly with the group "Ebony Affair" before forming a new group, "Hart" in 1993. The group was disbanded in 1995 and Josiah joined "Sync Sound Studios" as a producer [The Standard, February 2, 2007: [http://www.eastandard.net/mag/mag.php?id=1143964315&catid=123 "Tedd ranks artistes"] ] . In 1999 he left "Sync Sound Studios" and formed "Audio Vault Studios" [Daily Nation, May 23, 1999: [http://www.nationaudio.com/News/DailyNation/230599/Features/SE0.html "Exciting tidings in store for local artistes and music lovers"] ] . It was renamed to "Blu Zebra" in 2002.

He is credited for producing compilation albums called 'Kenyan, The First Chapter' and 'Kenyan, The Second Chapter'. The two albums featured Hardstone, Kalamashaka, Gidi Gidi Maji Maji, Necessary Noize, In-Tu, Jimmy Gathu, Maina Kageni, Pete Odera, boy wonder Ndarling P and Uganda's sensation, Kawesa

Josiah is also the founder of Kisima Awards, the premier annual musical awards held in Kenya. He was given producer of the year prize at the Kisima Awards in 2004, but he rejected it citing his position as an organiser of the awards. Next year he resigned from its organizing committee. [The Standard, February 3, 2005: [http://www.eastandard.net/archives/cl/mags/pulse/articles.php?articleid=12331&date=4/02/2005 "Tedd resigns from Kisima committee"] ] .

Like most studios in Kenya, Blu Zebra has a fixed producer and it operates also as a record label. Blu Zebra continues to be one of leading Kenyan production houses/record labels, alongside Madugu Digital, Ogopa DJs, Calif Records, Homeboyz, Jomino among others.

Tedd Josiah has worked with many of the most popular Kenyan performers like Poxi Presha Susan Owiyo, Achieng' Abura, Prezzo, Didge, Mwongolo, among others.

Tedd is reportedly the brain behind ODM's commercials for the Kenyan general election, 2007 campaign. In March 2008, a local youth magazine reported that Tedd had taken refuge in an unnamed country in fear of his life for his contribution to ODM's campaigns.

References

*Kenya Times, January 17, 2007: [http://www.timesnews.co.ke/17jan07/spicy/spicy4.htm Ted Josiah: Show B iz President] (interview)


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