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When the four young men who make up music group Sauti Sol will be stepping at the stage of the BET Awards next month, the most prestigious awards for black entertainers in the world, they will not only be carrying their own dreams but also the hopes of a nation.
Whether Sauti Sol lose or win in their category, they will still have made history.
The significance of their nomination for the international award, which only one other Kenyan music group has ever been nominated in, is captured in an interview that they did for an international TV station, France24.
An article posted on the France24 TV website in December last year, a month after Sauti Sol won the award for the Best African Act at the 2014 MTV European Music Awards, best sums up the perception about Sauti Sol.
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