Irene Labdi Ommes, 31, known as LABDI, is a Kenyan musician and composer, and a pioneering female Orutu player breaking cultural taboos around the traditional instrument. The orutu, a one-stringed Luo ...
The Orutu is a traditional stringed instrument from the Luo community of Kenya and historically only be played by men. Even today, Labdi is the only woman who plays the Orutu professionally.