A heartfelt conversation with My Love, a companion for over four decades, this song remains true to its origins, composed shortly after our meeting. Despite the passage of time, the lyrics retain their honesty, reflecting the enduring bond we share. Together, we've weathered life's highs and lows, grateful for each moment.
Since my childhood, I've been joined at the hips with music, virtually like Siamese twins. In 1974, I started learning how to play the guitar, which was made immensely easy by the songs I could sing back from memory. Within 2 years, I could confidently play rythm guitar on stage, with a high school band called The Vampires.
In 1979, my former band members and I formed the Movers Band at the University of Nairobi. In 1982, I teamed up with a lady I sometimes simply call "My Love", to record a song I called "I believe in me"—the first time a Kenyan did sequential multitrack recording without a live band at the then ultra-modern CBS 16 track studio in Nairobi.
The song was released just a few months before the 1982 coup attempt by the Kenya Airforce, for which songs student leaders voices support publicly. Because of a phrase in the song 'Security means nothing to me if all it means is keeping of arms', the music presenters panicked, & the song was literally hastily removed from the library to the archives - by then it was No: 7 in the English charts.
Since then I became a musical recluse and decided to play only for myself. In 2008 I released a 10 track CD, but was reluctant to promote it. My style is based on (but not locked to) Benga music, one of whose original founders (namely the late Samuel Akech Jabuya aka Akech Oyosi) was a close friend of mine.
By inviting you here, I'm asking you to join me in this journey of creating better music. Karibu!
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