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- Freshley Mwamburi continues to pop into Kenyans minds, especially on every May 17 of every year
- The song Stella Wangu will arguably remain to be his best song ever and it went viral again on Monday
- The singer and his wife were also awarded a Mombasa vacay by Kenya Airways
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Renowned Kenyan musician Freshley Mwamburi had to move on after his dear lover left him for a Japanese man, which he narrated in the song Stella Wangu.
With the 29th anniversary of his misery day marked by Kenyans on Monday, May 17, we look at the current life of the singer in these lovely photos.
1. Mwamburi still maintains that cool appearance with his coloured beard ensuring he looks 10 years younger.
2. The singer never leaves his house without a dapper look and has a thing for bright suits.
3. After releasing the remix of Stella Wangu a few months back, he got several invites from media houses to speak on the song and how it has impacted his life.
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4. The singer affirmed that he had long forgiven Stella for the heartache she caused him and is happily married to the love of his life.
5. The singer is one of the music veterans in Kenya that has moved with time as he has social media accounts and even a YouTube channel for streaming his music.
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6. While celebrating the 29th anniversary of Stella Wangu, netizens went on social media sharing hilarious memes of what the singer's day on May 17, 1992, could have looked like.
Mwamburi appreciated this and thanked Kenyans for keeping his song alive.
7. The musician and his wife were also awarded a Mombasa vacay by Kenya Airways to help ease the heartache of the memorable day.
Do you have a groundbreaking story you would like us to publish? Please Tell us about Stella... was she a real person? I met Stella in 1991 when I went to perform at Garden Hotel in Machakos after my band, Everest Kings, shifted base from Thika. At the time Stella was studying at the University of Nairobi, but she left for Japan in 1992 for further studies. She later informed me she wanted to settle down and I gave her my blessings. Stella returned to Kenya with her four feet Japanese husband, how come we have never heard from her since? She briefly stayed in Kenya before relocating to Tanzania with her Japanese husband. They had gone there kujivinjari, but chose to live there. Do you still talk to Stella? Yes. We do communicate and in fact she was to come to Kenya last week but due to unavoidable circumstances they went to Honolulu. She wants her life private. She plans on coming to Kenya in three weeks’ time, so I am patiently waiting. Is your wife jealous of Stella? My wife is more learned than I am and she is a good adviser. I mean, whatever happened in the past in behind now us. Are you planning on recording a song featuring Stella and how you overcame the grief? My cousin Azizi Abdi and fellow musician Ted Kalanda will do a collabo. It will be a way to thank me for been supportive despite Stella being married to another man. What will your next single song be about? I am thinking of doing a song that will ask my fans what they could have done if they were in my shoes. A woman leaving you for another man. How did you know you could sing? I schooled at Changamwe Day and Boarding school, before moving to Alidina Visram. This is where I joined the choir and realised I could sing. After high school, I was recruited to the Air Force as an artiste. I was then signed by Simba Wanyika band led by the late Wilson Peter Kinyonga and his brother George Peter Kinyonga in 1983. In 1987 I It is a warm Friday afternoon as we drive to the otherwise hilly Machakos County's Mumbuni area, a place called Kwa Musyoka, loosely translated as ‘he who returns'. This is the quiet neighbourhood where Freshly Mwamburi, the legendary Taita singer behind the popular Stella hit, a song composed out of a real-life story of heartbreak, lives. He resides here with his wife, who he married after his first love disappointed him, despite funding her college expenses all the way to her scholarship in Japan. The now aged but rather energetic and styled cool and good-spirited man welcomes us, before his wife, Dorcas Nduku, helps him to pull seats for us. “I know by now you know a bit of my story. Have you heard the Stella remix yet?” Mwamburi teases of the new single that was released about three weeks ago. As we start the conversation, the sound of birds chirping, dogs barking and chicken clucking is all the jazz around us. Everything here is part of the ballad. It is a unique fusion that Mwamburi seems to love as he jokes, “Valentine’s Day is near and love birds everywhere are showing love.” Read Also: Valentine's Day a pathetic excuse to waste resources? He argues that Valentine’s Day was brought to Africa by the British. “This is a very important day worldwide. Let us not pressure up things that cannot work during this day. We need to agree with our partners. This is a day that should not be ruled by disagreements but agreements,” he says. Mwamburi says Nduku had already told him that she would like a vacation at the Coast on Valentine's Day, with her children, something he was still contemplating. “This is something new, and one that has a certain push, which comes with a plan. Wearing red shirts and giving out red roses to our loved ones… well, my family and I have a small plan in place,& . I still talk to Stella on phone says the artist behind the famous song ‘Stella’ - Freshly Mwamburi
My wife was initially not comfortable with Stella - Freshly Mwamburi