Her music is characterised by her powerful, passionate and compelling voice, backed by traditional drums and percussions, the one stringed orutu and the oporo horn. Ogoya Nengo was born Anastasia Oluoch in the late 1930s, in Magoya, a small village near the shores of Lake Victoria. Born to a family of Luo singers and orators, she soon joined their trade and practice as social messengers and commentators, commonly referred to as dodo singers.
Ni mwanamuziki wa kihistoria ya miongo kadhaa kutoka Kenya, Ogoya Nengo alizaliwa mwaka 1930 katika kijiji kidogo kijulikanacho kwa jina Magoya, karibu na fukwe ya ziwa Victoria katika kabila la Luo. Ametoka katika familia ya waimbaji, karibuni amejiunga katika miradi ya kufanya kazi ya kuwa mjumbe wa kijamii na mchambuzi wa jamii ya waluo, kawaida anajulikana kama dodo.