How I Reconnected With Music

In 2008 when I went astray at the university, I stopped attending church at All Saints' Cathedral Nairobi where I played the organ. And for the next four years, I rarely touched any keyboard instrument.

A university mate called Emmanuel Karanja became concerned that I was wasting my musical talent. He told me a couple of times, "Thuita, you can play the piano!"

My brother Paddy also became concerned. When he asked me whether I still played the piano, I told him I did, which was a lie as I had no access to one and seldom went to church.

Come 2012, I began yearning to acquire a keyboard. So I asked my friend Shemaiah Mwakodi, who runs a piano school in downtown Nairobi, to give me one. The one he gave me was too decrepit to be of any use to me. But then, a miracle happened.

Well, Paddy hooked me up with the wife of Mr. Seni Adetu, the then CEO of East African Breweries Limited (EABL). She wanted piano lessons for her children. Though I have regretted not giving her value for her money, I am glad I had the job because it made me afford a keyboard.

I felt fulfilled that evening I travelled home with the keyboard. And having it in my room has helped me reconnect with my musical talent. It makes me fully alive when I play hymns and Vienna classics on it.

Because Plato said music gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything, I will keep playing the keyboard. That's all I am saying.

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