I Would Have Become a Thief - Evelyn Wanjiru Admits

Published By The Statesman For The Statesman Digital
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God has been so faithful, were the words that Evelyn Wanjiru and Kambua shared when they had a sit down together February 21st.

Award winning Gospel singer Evelyn Wanjru walked down memory lane, growing up poor in Nakuru, and how those hardships spurred her.

The Vyumbe Zote singer spoke about where she was groomed musically in Nakuru

"Because of poverty, I didn't want to do music. I wanted to work in an mpesa. Weuh, or in a bank, kule pesa , mpesa was the in thing those days, Why? Because I felt when poverty strikes you when poverty captures your mind, you are caged in it. I was Why did I want to work in a bank? Because I hated poverty, with everything in me. I would have become a thief, literally, my mum used to beat me, my brother would beat us until she would bite us, hautakuwa mwizi wewe..utapelekwa juvwniel wewe. That is how bad it was, and you know"

"I wanted to work in a bank because I hated poverty, it made me feel unwanted, and so I wanted to work in a bank I didn't know that the money in a bank was not for the teller, it was for the people who come to bank. But as a man thinketh, so he becomes. I said kama sitaingia kwa bank because I haven't achieved the grades to be in a bank, I will work in an mpesa. " Describing how she admitted the way it generated money "hapa ndio pesa iko, but God had a different plan for me"

The Wewe Ni Mungu hitmaker said music was her saving grace

"I still loved God even in my lowest of life. I had the good girl in me. I was raised in a church where music was really something. And they groomed me walked with me."

She had finished form four and as a worship leader Evelyn located her blessings.

"As I'm leading worship, this guy comes in and for some few seconds I forgot the second verse. so, the guy seats and I used to sing Rose Muhando song 'yesu we nakupenda" why? this guy that's the only love song" she was professing her love.

That man in Church became her crush." he was dark, tall, he was everything I wanted in a man"

However, for the 8 months he kept going to church, he ignored her, which hurt her feelings. "I stopped singing the love song, I went back to singing for the Lord, io stori nika lenga" That man is now her husband.