Bahati and Bruce Melodie’s new song Diana has finally been returned to YouTube.
Taking to Instagram, Bahati informed his fans of the good news while thanking them for their continued support.
He also revealed that they had sorted out their differences with Ziiki music distributors and they will continue working together.
“Dear Bahati Fans!!! First is to thank you all for your continued support in my music career. You people are the Best!
Second is to announce that your Favourite Song #DIANA featuring the Rwandese Superstar Bruce Melodie is officially back on my YouTube channel #BahatiKenya !!Lastly, I wish to acknowledge the support and mutual relationship we have had with Ziiki Media over the years in my music distribution and state that we have amicably sorted the misunderstanding with them, and wish to work together towards growing our African Music Industry!” Bahati said.
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The song was released on about a week ago but was immediately pulled down from YouTube. Bahati took to Instagram and accused Ziiki of hacking his YouTube account and deleting the song.
“Dear Bahati fans. Ziiki media has illegally hacked my Youtube channel and deleted my song Diana featuring Rwanda’s Bruce Melodie. Ziiki media are fraudsters. Dear Kenyan Government this is Where we are getting our Taxes… Help Us Deal with this Fraudsters!!! VERY SAD!!!” the disappointed singer said.
He decided to share the song on his wife’s YouTube channel but it was pulled down again over copyright claims.
Responding to Bahati, Ziiki denied the claims and demanded Bahati to apologize and pull down the offensive post from his Instagram account.
“We refer to the unfortunate post on Instagram by one by our artiste Kevin Kioko a.k.a. Bahati, from Kenya.Bahati has claim in his post that Ziiki Media has ‘hacked” his YouTube channel, taken down one of his songs “illegally., and has refer to the company as “fraudsters”, without any explanation or substance to such an incriminating statement. We vehemently deny the statement made by Bahati in the above post in its entirety, and do not wish to dignify such brazen lies by explaining any further at this stage,” Ziiki said in a statement.