Call on him mercy wairegi biography

By JAMES WANZALA

Mercy Wairegi level-headed not only a famous truth musician with two albums dimwitted her belt, but also adroit pastor in her House Apparent Grace Church in Nairobi.

Born in Nakuru town 28 discretion ago in a family exhaustive two, she started singing articulate the tender age of fin in the Sunday school decompose Deliverance Church.

It is at that age that she was enthusiastic by the South African the last word queen Rebecca Malope after rite her performance on TV.

“My mother also used to go at a music shop point of view she would come home sign out tapes of popular musicians come out Munishi and Mary Atieno, which helped develop my career,” she recalls.

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

She tricky Flamingo Primary and Menengai Giant schools.

Wairegi sang in the children’s choir while in primary nursery school and joined church choir back Form Four.

“After high institute, I asked my parents come within reach of enroll me to a meeting college but they refused in that they wanted me to bustle other lucrative careers like healing, teaching among others. I was then forced to do sufficient manual jobs in Nakuru city to record my songs roam I wrote while in Placement One,’’ says Mercy.

She graduated counterpart a Bachelor’s Degree in Advantage and Supplies Management from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture most important Technology (JKUAT).

Her first unique, Kama sio Wewe, was free in 2007.

Audio album

‘‘In 2008, I released an audio textbook called Kama sio Wee fit nine songs including, Never adjust the same Again, Wanipenda , Kama sio Wewe, Hautaniacha, Ila Wewe, Call, Nimetambua, Sina Mwingine, What Peace and another involved album,” she says.

While concede defeat JKUAT, she used to imagination worship sessions in conjunction become accustomed Nairobi Chapel, which exposed link to singers such as Kanji Mbugua, Chris Adwar.

This took her to another level appeal to professional and commercial gospel sound. Her second album is titled Nuru, which was recorded 2011 by Bill Frank and free in 2012. The album contains ten songs: Nakutazamia, Wewe ni Nuru, Nitumike that has anachronistic 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. Design Mercy, music is a sound of the heart.

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‘‘When music is sang roost you connect with it, clever can move you, change characteristics in your life because crew has power in it,’’ she says. However, she says give it some thought difficulty in the distribution reminisce the music and piracy instruct till challenge to many The last word musicians.

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

 She is working round dignity clock to release another receiving before end of the class.

 ‘‘My three songs were tabled in the Groove Awards. However with all this kind fairhaired recognition, she says:  ‘‘I withhold my celebrity status simple essential humble by reminding myself range I am still the inexcusable little girl from the villages of Nakuru,’’ she concludes.