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The Israeli pop sensation in Kenya

Gilad Millo is an Israeli ex-diplomat who's become an unlikely pop sensation in Kenya

Gilad Millo has become a pop sensation in Kenya, singing in both English and Swahili. But a lot of his fans have been surprised to discover that he's actually a white Israeli ex-diplomat in his mid-40s. When our reporter Andrea Kidd went to meet him in Nairobi, Gilad told her how he discovered that his first song Unajua had gone to number one.

Gilad Millo singing at The Alchemist.
Credit: Zollo.

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