Benga music, with its fast guitar rhythms and Swahili-Luo lyrics, is the sound of Lake Victoria. D.O. Misiani pioneered it in the 1960s, electrifying traditional Luo melodies and creating a genre that dominated Kenyan airwaves for decades. Benga was dance music, political commentary, and social chronicle. It told stories of migration, heartbreak, and resistance. Ayub Ogada took Luo music global, stripping it back to voice and nyatiti. Benga is less dominant now, but it shaped every Kenyan sound that followed.