You would think it would be hard to get heard in a country of 47 million people.

Joanne Ball Burgess’s song Don’t Disturb My Dance is getting airplay all over Kenya.

“I just got back from launching the song in Mombasa,” said the Bermudian who moved to Nairobi five years ago.

“It was really nice to see that many people already knew [it]. I start a tour of Nairobi next week promoting it further.”

It’s the third single she has released since she and her husband, Quincy, left the island for East Africa. Good Love came out in 2011 and Chiziqa in 2013. The latter was nominated for a Bingwa Music Award the next year.

“Making the Don’t Disturb My Dance music video was very much a family affair,” she said.

“My middle son danced. My oldest son loves robotics and flew a drone and my [10-month-old] is only little, but he’s in it too.

“He’s wearing ear protectors which look like ear muffs. We often dance together as a family and he loves it.”

Pupils from Cottage School, the institution the Burgess’s started two years ago, also got involved.

“We use the performing arts as a link with learning,” she said.

“It is the first project I’ve done where all my roles came together: Joanne the mom, Joanne the dancer/performer and Joanne the teacher.”

She worked on the project with a Kenyan entertainer, Ammi the Veggie Man.

The video was filmed in her Nairobi neighbourhood on a Sunday morning; she used a flash mob for part of it.

“Dancers were encouraged to bring other dancers,” she said.

“What was funny, was people in the neighbourhood were coming and recording on their phone and standing around and watching.

“There was an old man who was nodding his head to beat saying, ‘Yeah, yeah’.”

The song is inspirational, urging people to ignore what others think and just dance.

“My message was, even if you have two left feet, just dance,” she said. “Be free and dance.”

The song has a soca beat, which is relatively new for Kenya.

“People are getting into it,” she said.

“When people in Nairobi hear soca they think it is dancehall.”

Her music is just one of the opportunities Kenya’s growing economy has presented her with.

Mrs Ball was on the TV dance show Sakata for three years, known as Judge Jo1.

“Thanks to that show I have followers,” she said.

“That helps when launching my music.

“There wouldn’t be as much I could do with [my songs] in Bermuda.

“In Kenya you have organisations where performers’ rights are protected.

“Artists get royalties at the end of the year based on the number of times their music is played on the airways.

“It is Kenya’s attempt to protect musicians, performers and producers.

“We don’t have that in Bermuda yet.”

• Don’t Disturb My Dance is available on iTunes