“My Grade Wasn’t Strong Enough For University” Popular Gospel Singer Opens Up About Her Journey

One would imagine that having a banker for a dad and a World Vision Officer for a mum life would sail on smoothly till you become independent.

This was not the case for celebrated gospel singer Eunice Njeri. In a past interview with True Love Magazine, she confesses  that she never lacked anything in her early years.

“We were pretty well off by those days’ standards,” she reveals adding that, “but then they both lost their jobs. Things became rather desperate for us.”

Attending school became hard and Eunice’s health could not allow her to since she had always been a sickly child. The second-born had anaemia up until high school with an in and out hospital routine.

However, she managed to pass her KCPE and get through high school with the dreams of studying law or hospitality.

“I got a B grade, exactly what I had asked God for, and was second best performing student. However, it wasn’t strong enough to get me to university,” she says.

She got herself a job at a little dealership in town that rented out CDs and DVDs where her passion in a music began.

“I would watch the DVDs and see another side of life I didn’t know existed. I watched music videos and started getting inspired. I knew that I could sing, so I decided to get into the local church’s praise and worship team,” she says.

She says that at 20 she soon gained reputation and learnt how to sing properly in that little town.

“I did not know then that I was eventually going to pursue music as a career; I was just doing it because I loved it,” she says.

She later worked at a salon and unfortunately 18 months later she lost the job and moved back home.

After accompanying her brother to Nairobi to watch the gospel brand The Parachute perform, she resolved not to go back home and stayed with an aunt in Kangemi.

Here she settled for the Harvest Centre church where her dreams were realized. A local tailor told her that she would give her a non refundable Ksh100,000 to start off the launch of her solo album.

She says that some of her friends were not happy for her adding that at one point life was so difficult that she did not even have a place to sleep.

The singer admits that with the demands that came with the popularity and no one to counsel her she made many mistakes. She signed bad contracts and got invited abroad to perform but was denied visas.

She also reveals how she makes a living.

“I mostly make a living, not from selling my music but from going to crusades and the congregation decides out of the goodness of their heart to bless us with something little. And the ‘something little’ sustains me very well,” she says.

She has toured widely in Holland, Turkey, Dubai, the UK and Canada and has raised enough capital to build a school in Nanyuki by the name “Alpha Junior Academy.”

She recently got a scholarship to study theology and music for 4 years at the American Forerunner Music Academy

Her parting shot, “Being young and saved is a wonderful thing; that is what I would advise the youth stepping out into the world now. Living in God is a blessing to your life,” she concludes.

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