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- Karibu Night brings Kenyan music and fashion together at Greasy Tunes as Spotify stages a Made In Kenya-inspired showcase during Studio 18’s Karibu Night event;
- Day two of Spotify’s 12-day Greasy Tunes programme featured a fashion showcase built around the official Greasy Tunes jersey and scarf designed by Studio 18, alongside live performances from BURUKLYN BOYZ, Sukuma, Afrikun and more;
Karibu Night,hosted by Studio 18 at Heltz House,featured a fashion showcase put together by the Spotify team and inspired by Spotify’s Made In Kenya playlist, alongside live performances from ten of the country’s rising and established artists.
The showcase was built around two official Greasy Tunes merchandise pieces designed by Studio 18: the Greasy Tunes jersey and scarf.
Afropop is the DNA of the Made In Kenya playlist, serving as a window into the sound and energy of Kenyan music right now.
This is reflected in the market data, as Afropop listening grew 21% year on year among Kenya 18–24 listeners.Forty per cent of the playlist’s listeners are aged 18 to 24, making it one of the most Gen Z-leaning editorial playlists in the market.
As part of the Greasy Tunes programme,the playlist cover changes daily to spotlight artists connected to each day’s event.
On day two, the Made In Kenya cover featured BURUKLYN BOYZ, aligning with their performance at Karibu Night.
“Made In Kenya is not just a playlist, it is a reflection of how Kenyan youth are shaping culture in real time.
For Greasy Tunes, we wanted to take that energy beyond streaming and create moments where music could meet the other creative worlds it naturally lives alongside, including fashion.
Karibu Night showed how strongly music, style and youth culture are connected in Nairobi.”—Bea Theron, Experiential Marketing lead for Spotify in Africa.
The night sits within a broader cultural moment. Spotify’s June 2026 listening data shows that 18–24 listeners account for 53.7% of all streams in Nairobi, the highest Gen Z share among Nairobi,Lagos and Johannesburg.
Karibu Night brought several of those sounds to the stage through artists featured on the Made In Kenya playlist.
THE LINEUP
Karibu Night featured live performances from:
▸ BURUKLYN BOYZ
▸ Sukuma
▸ Afrikun
▸ Solo
▸ Angelo
▸ Coco Kahi
▸ Dauudi O.
▸ Love, Mani
▸ Nig.Wav
▸ Ojizzo
The lineup reflected the breadth of Kenya’s current music landscape. BURUKLYN BOYZ, one of Nairobi’s most recognised drill acts,headlined a bill that also included emerging names connected to the same discovery pipeline that has driven some of the most striking growth figures in Spotify’s recent Kenya data.
FASHION MEETS PLAYLIST
The Karibu Night fashion showcase was put together by the Spotify team as a direct response to the Made In Kenya playlist.
Rather than being a standalone Studio 18-designed collection, the showcase used the official Greasy Tunes jersey and scarf, both designed by Studio 18, as the central creative pieces.
From there, different designers within Studio 18 styled and reimagined the merch into a series of looks that reflected the energy,colour and cultural references embedded in the playlist’s tracklist.
The result was a showcase that connected Spotify’s editorial lens with Studio 18’s design community, making the relationship between Kenyan music and fashion feel physical and immediate.
“The jersey and scarf were designed as pieces that could live beyond a single event.For Karibu Night, it was exciting to see different designers within Studio 18 take those pieces and reinterpret them through their own creative language.
The showcase became a way of showing how Kenyan music can influence fashion, and how fashion can carry the same energy people hear in the Made In Kenya playlist.”—Brandon Zamani,Studio 18 co-Founder.
With 40% of the playlist’s listeners aged 18 to 24,the Made In Kenya playlist sits at the intersection of music discovery and youth culture.
The showcase aimed to make that connection visible, showing how the same generation shaping Nairobi’s listening habits is also influencing its visual identity.
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