Escaping a life on a dumpsite with classical music

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  Hello, it's Emily Webb and this is Outlook, sharing extraordinary personal stories from all over the world.

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  Simon Karaoke Ndungu is my guest today.

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  He works trying to bring young people into classical music, which, as he well knows, isn't always the easiest job.

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  Do you remember the first piece of classical music you heard?

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  Wow, wow, wow.

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  You know, I was coming from.

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  Classical music was a new culture into our community and it was trying to find its root.

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  So we never understood what was it.

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  I remember the lady.

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  I usually sit there, I usually see the white people singing in the television.

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  It was so boring for me.

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  I could not open your mouth, like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

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  Do you remember a piece of classical music that you heard?

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  That you were like, oh, maybe.

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  I do understand this, to be honest with you.

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  No.

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  Of course, a lot has changed since those days.

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  Simon's now working for a top orchestra in the uk, but he first heard classical music in the slum where he grew up in Kenya.

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  It's in the capital, Nairobi, and it's called Koragocho.

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  There are various theories about why the slum got that name.

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