Jim Chuchu is a Kenyan film director, photographer, singer-songwriter and visual artist.
10 Facts About Jim Chuchu
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Jim Chuchu first came to attention as a member of Kenyan music group Just A Band and subsequently as director of Kenyan LGBT film Stories of Our Lives.
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Jim Chuchu quit his job to become a freelance graphic designer in late 2006.
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In 2008, Jim Chuchu co-founded Just A Band together with fellow members Bill "Blinky" Sellanga and Dan Muli, whom he had met while studying at the Kenyatta University.
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Jim Chuchu performed multiple duties in the band, including co-producing the band's first three studio albums, Scratch to Reveal, 82 and Sorry for the Delay, creating graphic art for the band and directing many of the band's videos - including "Ha-He" which spawned viral hit Makmende, causing the video to be subsequently described as Kenya's first viral internet meme by the Wall Street Journal, CNN and Fast Company.
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In 2012, Jim Chuchu co-founded The Nest Collective, a multidisciplinary art space and collective in Nairobi.
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In March 2013, Jim Chuchu produced and released Imaginary Chains as pseudonymous act Adeiyu.
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Jim Chuchu followed this EP by releasing the single You Can't Break Her Heart in September 2013.
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In October 2013, Just A Band announced that Jim Chuchu had left the band to pursue his solo projects.
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In September 2014, Jim Chuchu released his first feature film, Stories of Our Lives, an anthology of five short films dramatizing true stories of LGBT life in Kenya which he directed as part of The Nest Collective.