Multi-award winning singer, producer and songwriter Bensoul in a candid interview with Philip Karanja has revealed battling illness and being forced to move home was one of the best things that ever happened to him.

Speaking during a guest appearance he made on Phil's podcast the 'Extra Pressure' hitmaker got candid about how insanely unwell he worse, the heartbreak he underwent while fighting for his life and how the whole fiasco aligned itself with things coincidentally working out in his best interest.

"What is your stranger than fiction story manze because it looks like you have lived life a lot, you have a lot of stories, go to a lot of places and na umepitia vitu mingi manze (and you've equally been through a lot of things,)" Phil excitedly asked his guest.

Responding to the question the Grammy Award winning songwriter walked down memory lane, picking out said story as the strangest thing that's ever happened to him.

"A lot of things have happened in my life that I can attest were all by God's doing and plan but to pick one... There's a time I was really sick, I genuinely felt like I was going to die.

The girl I was dating then ditched me, her family was like 'huyu jamaa kwanza vile anakaa kukufa maybe he even has AIDS,' because I was really sick and I had lost a lot of weight," the former Sol Generation signee narrated.

Bensoul revealed contrary to the speculations, he was suffering from tuberculosis (TB) and that's what had him down bad.

Due to his flailing health he had to move back home, this ended up being one of the best things to happen to his career.

"I was too skinny... but I feel like everything that happened was necessary in my life. I went back home, I had lost my voice, I couldn't sing so I was just writing songs. I penned a lot of songs from my imagination trying to envision how they'd sound. I'd try to record them in my head in the huskiest voice in my head but I came up with the most amazing songs," Bensoul joyfully told Director Phil.

Adding that till date the meditative quite writing process is his golden goose.

"That unlocked something in me and I learned to write from my subconscious. These days even when I go to the studio I don't like writing with loud music. I like going somewhere far and quite and I try to envision the song, perspectives are moving, life is happening and I'm looking at how things are happening and I get the purest words from that.

I try explaining that to people and other artists and sometimes they don't get it. I just see the music," Bensoul said.