------------ In 1932, Isaya Mwinamo Asiebera was born in Shinyalu, in the then Kakamega District, western Kenya. He attended Liranda Intermediate School before moving to Nairobi early in the 1950s. Mwinamo developed a keen interest in music and is considered among the pioneers of the African twist, a music style that was heavily influenced by penny whistle 'kwela' music from South Africa and the American twist that become highly popular in Kenya immediately after independence. He became an accom