REVEALED: Jaguar’s Struggle With Drugs

Charles Njagua, also known to us as Jaguar, has had a solid seven years in music. A career he decided to venture into while at Senior Chief Koinange High School. He says:

“One day I was singing, and a teacher called Mr. Mbugua caught me singing. He told me, ‘I like your voice.’ Then I thought he was joking. So he told me to try. Then one day, I did a solo song on my own during a school competition and he told me, ‘that’s what I’ve been telling you.’ Then I thought, oh, so I have a talent, and that’s when I started being serious when I was in Form Two.”

And, what’s more, he quickly jumped into a life of hard drugs like marijuana, and cocaine.

“When my mum passed away, nilikuwa mtoi msmall sana. So when someone tells me ‘Jaguar una-rap poa’ they’d be like ‘if you take drugs, you’re gonna be better than Shabba Ranks,’ I was like, ah, poa! So nilikuwa na-get involved na drugs na nilikuwa nafanya job ya makanga Buru, Lang’ata. So I think ni kama Godsend tu, nikaacha na nikarudi shuleni.”

Here is the full interview:

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