Freshly Mwamburi Marks 30 Years Since Stella Gave Her Character Development

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The date May 17 will always be a hot issue in Kenya. May 17 will always be remembered as the date when the first recorded Kenyan heartbreak occurred.

The story opens with a boy meeting a girl and falling in love with her the moment their eyes contact.

In the early 1990s, Freshley Mwamburi, a poor musician, met Stella, a University of Nairobi student, at a Machakos hotel.

Mwamburi and his band, Everest Kings, had just completed performing at the Garden Hotel when he met the shy Kamba girl, who would permanently change the trajectory of his life and music career.

He then fell in love with Stella, but because good things don’t endure, their relationship was rapidly put to the test when she informed him that she was going to Japan to further her studies.

So, infatuated, Mwamburi would flip the world upside down in search of funds to fund Stella’s trip overseas as well as her costs while she was there, knowing that she would return when she was finished and they would sail into the sunset together.

“Because we were in love, I expected her to return and marry me after her studies abroad. I sacrificed everything I had to the relationship, including selling my old car to meet her financial requirements while she was away,” he told the Standard in a previous interview.

“We were in daily contact, and I knew she was completely mine and that I would marry her. You know, this Kamba girl was such a beautiful…”

As the story goes, Stella returned to the country on May 17, 1992, with an ecstatic and youthful-looking Mwamburi waiting at the airport to pick up his love.

Stella, on the other hand, would disembark with a baby in her arms and a “short” Japanese husband in tow.

Mwamburi would then go to the studio and record the smash hit song “Stella wangu,” which has been passed down from generation to generation for three decades.

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