{"id":144358,"date":"2020-08-24T12:22:52","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T09:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.com\/ke\/?p=144358"},"modified":"2020-08-24T12:25:09","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T09:25:09","slug":"bensoul-narrates-how-he-nearly-died-after-hiv-scare-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/bensoul-narrates-how-he-nearly-died-after-hiv-scare-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Bensoul narrates how he nearly died after HIV scare (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sol Generation’s exceptional songwriter, Bensoul, had a tough childhood, forced to grow up under the care of a single mother, abandoned by the father to her kids.<\/p>\n

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Dallas, Embu is a slum area the talented multi-instrumentalist called a home for a better part of his younger years. A small mud house where he and his older sister of 13-years age difference were born and bred. With only one parent to call a mother after his dad demanded that they either convert to Islam or they forget that he ever existed.<\/p>\n

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Bensoul’s mother speaks of their humble beginnings<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

His mom took up the second option and since then, life was never the same.<\/p>\n

Music break<\/h2>\n

Bensoul started showing keen interest in music at the tender age of 3. He studied until campus enrolled into a Bachelors in Civil Engineering before dropping out in his final year to pursue his passion in music.<\/p>\n

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Benson Mutua Muia, famously known as Bensoul discovered his gift in music from a young age<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At first, his decision cost him big time before his gradual break in the music industry, introduced him to H_rt the Band, forcing the boys to move to Kayole together but life was not any better.<\/p>\n

When he wrote El Shaddai, <\/em>in Rongai, things took a nose dive. Bensoul persistently coughed all month, lost tremendous amount of weight, leaving him looking all-bony.<\/p>\n

“I think that was one of my lowest moments. We told him to come and stay with mum. He could not sit on a chair without a sponge because the bones were very weak,” his sister Lucy painfully recalled.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Bensoul’s sister tells of a horrifying experience<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

His mom immediately broke to tears after spotting her skinny son.<\/p>\n

I did not see a body, I saw bones. I was like a mad woman. So I left him in the house and went to look for a doctor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

According to Bensoul, he might have been infected with the deadly HIV\/AIDS.<\/p>\n

I had all the signs (of HIV) and at times I would feel like life was coming to an end. I nearly gave up on music because if I couldn’t sing, and I couldn’t explain what I have written, then there was no point in doing music.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Bensoul<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

He got tested and fortunately turned HIV negative. But there was an underlying issue that almost cost him his life.<\/p>\n

They discovered it was tuberculosis. Everyday I ate a portion for 5 people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Away from that, according to Bien, Bensoul is pretty talented and his exceptional gift will see him cross boundaries.<\/p>\n