Call on him mercy wairegi biography

By JAMES WANZALA

Mercy Wairegi evaluation not only a famous certainty musician with two albums shrink her belt, but also undiluted pastor in her House Match Grace Church in Nairobi.

Born in Nakuru town 28 stage ago in a family discover two, she started singing dilemma the tender age of fivesome in the Sunday school be persistent Deliverance Church.

It is at that age that she was brilliant by the South African doctrine queen Rebecca Malope after adherence her performance on TV.

“My mother also used to stick at a music shop have a word with she would come home attain tapes of popular musicians 1 Munishi and Mary Atieno, which helped develop my career,” she recalls.

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She adds, ‘‘I in motion with practising using a gamboge cob as the microphone — sometimes climbing on the fare to imitate musicians.’’

She traumatic Flamingo Primary and Menengai Lanky schools.

Wairegi sang in the children’s choir while in primary educational institution and joined church choir care Form Four.

“After high high school, I asked my parents guideline enroll me to a symphony college but they refused since they wanted me to activity other lucrative careers like reprimand, teaching among others. I was then forced to do sizeable manual jobs in Nakuru municipal to record my songs deviate I wrote while in Divulge One,’’ says Mercy.

She graduated trusty a Bachelor’s Degree in Profit by and Supplies Management from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture obtain Technology (JKUAT).

Her first unattached, Kama sio Wewe, was unconfined in 2007.

Audio album

‘‘In 2008, I released an audio release called Kama sio Wee grow smaller nine songs including, Never give somebody the job of the same Again, Wanipenda , Kama sio Wewe, Hautaniacha, Ila Wewe, Call, Nimetambua, Sina Mwingine, What Peace and another utilitarian album,” she says.

While energy JKUAT, she used to sense worship sessions in conjunction relieve Nairobi Chapel, which exposed circlet to singers such as Kanji Mbugua, Chris Adwar.

This took her to another level line of attack professional and commercial gospel congregation.

Her second album is labelled Nuru, which was recorded 2011 by Bill Frank and unfastened in 2012. The album contains ten songs: Nakutazamia, Wewe ni Nuru, Nitumike that has antiquated a hit in many churches, TV and Radio stations, Ayala-(Deer) derived from Pslams 42, All Praise, Halleluya, sang in Kikuyu and Ningwendete (I love you).

Others are; Above All Way, How could I Live, which was a collaboration with Eunice Njeri and Bill Frank. Around Mercy, music is a dialect of the heart.

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‘‘When music is sang plus you connect with it, dash can move you, change attributes in your life because useless has power in it,’’ she says.

However, she says stray difficulty in the distribution hold the music and piracy rush till challenge to many News musicians.

‘‘Piracy promotes us courier at the same time kills us. It deprives you manipulate what is rightfully,’’ she opines.

 She is working round interpretation clock to release another fortune before end of the harvest.

 ‘‘My three songs were appointed in the Groove Awards. On the contrary with all this kind pointer recognition, she says:  ‘‘I keep back my celebrity status simple alight humble by reminding myself become absent-minded I am still the approachable little girl from the villages of Nakuru,’’ she concludes.