Who is Kevin: The Owner of NRG Radio

 Meet owner of NRG Radio Kenya, Mo Sound: Whom He is, His Net Worth, Family and How he did it.

Kevin Mulei is a highly acclaimed Kenyan businessman, DeeJay, and media personality/Event organizer who is well known as the CEO of Mo Sound Events which hosts the annual Groove Awards Ceremony. Dj Kev is also recognized as the owner of NRG Radio. The radio station is know to have given birth to twin stations, Choice Radio and Fun X Radio, available on 91.3 FM and  87.7 FM. for the prior. Coolest vibe ever.

Kevin, born 1982 somewhere in Ukambani region (Eastern region Kenya), thus at barely the age of 40 years has an estimated net worth, as at 2020, of $2.3 million roughly a whopping Ksh 253 million. 

Though not much is known about the guy, Mulei came from a humble background. He was raised by his grandmother whom he speaks highly of saying she taught him farming as well as equipped him with important principles and values that would help him become the man he is today.
The allegedly aluminae of Mac B (Machakos Boys), the God-fearing fellow, is married to one wife, Janet Kabugu, and together they have three children two boys and a girl.

Kevin was clearly a guy with a great vision and out to make it happen, so despite the challenges he faced working out his dream, executed the first Groove Awards in 2004.

Explaining what it took to accomplish this, he said how tough the venture really was as he had no state of the art equipment, no contacts to help him out and made many mistakes. In his own words,

​ “If I’d been weak I’d have given up after the first one.”

He didn’t give up though, in 2005, he gave it another shot, hosting his 2nd event still receiving very little support from the stakeholders. The exercise was nothing easy and actually left him $25,000 in debt. The devastated Mulei ended up packing his bags and move to America for a year where he tried his hand in various business ventures such as real estate to media production.

A year later, the rejuvinated Kevin gave into his zeal to beat the odds to again try his hand in the Kenyan Showbiz, he came back and put together yet another Groove Awards event. This time around he got it right,   and thus saw Groove Awards grow from an uncertain concept to the best Awards Show in E. Africa.
This saw him become one of the very successful Kenyan enterprenuers. This is very evident as the guy actually drives one of the more expensive rides in the country, a BMW  i8 an imported beautiful machine that goes for about Kshs. 15 Million.

Mulei also runs Mo Sound Events, a creative and equipment company which offers a wide variety of solutions in production, events management, digital media, brand activation and entertainment equipment. He has been quoted as saying that he was motivated to start Mo Sound after seeing the bad state of sound equipment in the country as a DJ. Mo Sound now has a branch in Rwanda and is set to open in Uganda and Tanzania. With over 70 employees, the company contracts the services of up to 40 more casuals when needed.

Despite mostly dealing in entertainment gigs, Mo Sound has grown to be the lead technical organizer for government and corporate events. Some of its best gigs have been organizing the Rwanda Independence Day celebrations, Kenya’s 50th Independence Day celebrations and the Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES), graced by President Barack Obama in Nairobi.

Apart from the the audio-visual components, MoSound has partnered with Power Africa to increase access to power in Sub-Saharan Africa, to display local innovations such as M-Kopa and D’Light.

More recently he launched NRG Radio which offers a unique service blending of radio, digital and social experience that fuels energy – the first of its kind in the region.

NRG Radios boasts of a new wave of radio technology including a modern production room, control rooms and 3 state-of-the-art IP-based studios with visual integration consisting of equipment from German technical pioneer, Lawo, with the ability to stream live videos from the studio to any Content Distribution Network or Social Media and other platforms.

Reference:

• KCB Lion's Den
• Mwalimu Rachel's blog
• Other contributors