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“Mwendwa Wakwa Mariru” and “Mumunya” benga star Albert Gacheru, who crooned in Gikuyu was a rare breed of musician juggling a singing career with managing businesses.
Though he composed and produced several hits, what has stood the test of time and reverberated through our radios was the love song, Mwendwa Wakwa Mariru released in 1989. The song gave Gacheru his stardom and he would go on to produce over 200 albums. Others popular songs he composed were Yarwanio and Hurry, Hurry Waithera.
However, like all legends, he time was up and on Easter Monday, Gacheru bowed out at the Kenyatta National Hospital where he had been admitted for four days having been transferred from Nairobi South Hospital where he had been admitted for seven weeks.
By Vincent Kejitan | 6 hours ago
Just days after the music fraternity mourned the demise of renowned Benga musician Albert Gacheru, the family has confirmed that his brother Basilio Ngunjiri has also died.
Basilio Ngunjiri wa Kiarie, 69, died while receiving treatment at a hospital in Ol Kalou.
Speaking to the Standard, a distraught Julius Ngunjiri who is a brother to the deceased, said Basilio, popularly known as BN died after exhibiting Covid-like symptoms for several days. My brother had just received the Covid-19 jab at a local health centre on Tuesday last week. Prior to that, he had Covid-like symptoms that got worse this week. His death is another blow to the entire family that is yet to come to terms with the death of our brother Albert Gacheru, says Julius.
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Renowned benga musician Albert Gacheru, who died on Monday night. PHOTO | COURTESY
Renowned benga musician Albert Gacheru, who in 1990s produced many recording artistes, has died at the Kenyatta National Hospital.
Gacheru, who was known for his two hits “Mwendwa wakwa Mariru” and “Mumunya”, was the producer behind artistes such as the late Queen Jane, the late John Demathew and gospels singers such as Mary Wambui and Shari Martin.
His brother Julius Kanyora told the Nation that Gacheru had been in the ICU for the last two months and died last night at 9pm.
Born in Nyandarua, the trained accountant – who later did law at the Mt Kenya University – fought in courts for the rights of musicians and for the streamlining of the copyright act to protect both the musicians and the producers.