MAUREEN WARUINGE ENTERTAINMENT JOURNALIST

23 August 2022

• Bensoul has described 2022 as the year his career is about to take off to higher levels

• Bensoul says he is ready to settle down with his girlfriend Noni Gathoni

Sol Generation signee Benson Mutua stage name Bensoul has described his life as happy and living his dream in an interview with Kiss TV's Kamene Goro.

In the Monday August 22 interview, Bensoul hinted that he is ready to settle down with his girlfriend Noni Gathoni. The star gushed over his lover with a confession that she has held him down for the longest.

The Medicine hitmaker told Kamene that he is ready for the next chapter of his life - marriage.

"Niko na bibi mpole, such a wonderful human being we have been together three years and counting, karibu nioe, usiniharakishe," he laughed as Kamene asked why it has taken him long to pop the question.

He responded; "But these things hakunaga haraka kuoa? hakuna haraka".

"I am not in a hurry, I will marry her because she has held me down at the craziest time, she is a real one,".

The 29-year-old singer got candid about being perceived as of as a mama's boy.

"I am kinda a mama's boy but not that one where everything must pass by her. I am a mama's boy because I was the man in my family, as my dad was not around,"

He also spoke about his upbringing from Embu to Nairobi with his sister and mother

"I was born and raised in Embu. I am a Church boy, that's here I started playing instruments because my mum was in choir and dad was a choir director before he converted to Muslim", Bensoul disclosed.

Bensoul further disclosed that he found his passion for music and instruments in church courtesy of his Bishop.

He also credited his mother who allowed him to drop Civil Engineering to pursue music.

"Our mum is my everything that's why I say I am a mamas boy. She is the one who believes in me. I was to do civil engineering when I came to Nairobi. I tried it for like three years, and I was like this is not my thing. I used to be very depressed nikiingia kwa class when I used to see other guys rehearsing and me I'm going to class. So I dropped it I started doing music".

Bensoul never regretted his decision.

"I've never looked back ever since, despite the challenges and everything. I used to be very depressed when I saw others rehearsing for music, so I dropped engineering," Papa Soul said.

Adding;

"So I just believed in it and followed it and God blessed it and ni mungu tuu inanileta hapa,".

Did he know this is what he always wanted?

"There is a bishop who used to be like the leader of our church in Embu. He told me you know you are a smart kid, I know education can take you many places but this music is gonna take you even further. So I guess I carried that with me all through and that's ne of the things that has kept encouraging me i can do it. "

How has 2022 been for Bensoul?

"2022 imeanza vizuri eh 2020 and 2021 were pressure. There were some really bad moments coz it got to a point where you are not gigging, you don't know where your next supper is coming from hujui so unabahatisha tuu, lakini God held us down so my 2022 has stared with a bang,".