A Moving ‘River Journey’ With the Vocal Trio Moipei, Identical Triplets Out of Nairobi

Their voices are stunning, opera-worthy sopranos all, and as they take in everything from pop and soul to gospel, jazz, and show tunes, they blend together so sonorously that often it’s hard to tell who, if anyone, is singing lead.

Howard Melton
Moipei, a vocal trio of identical triplets from Nairobi, Kenya. Howard Melton

“I’ve known rivers,” Langston Hughes wrote in one of his first — circa 1919 — and most famous poems, which is formally titled “The Negro Speaks of Rivers.” He continues, “I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins.” 

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