Wycliffe
Andambi aka Papa Awiko,born in vihiga county and raised by both
parents is an upcoming Kenyan gospel artist and a star .
Papa
awiko well known for his moving folk gospel songs and moves explains
how life was hard especially being raised in a polygamous family. He
says "life was not that easy we went through hard times with my mom
back in the village and my dad was a city guy who just visited us once
in a while"
Like any other child brought up in such
set up Awiko added that learning was not easy since his mother had to
do some casual jobs to make sure that they get their daily bread and
also manage paying school fees.
But he says that's
there was was voice kept calling on him not to give up,as he could see
a big and bright future ahead even though he dint know how this could
come to reality one day.
He narrates this to
Superstar magazine,"so the church where my mom used to fellowship every
Sunday i also used to go for all services and participate in singing
moreso during normal services where I used to lead the praise a
worship team by then called Choir and during competition we could
emerge winners under my support",
As a little boy
who had just finished his KCPE exams and waiting for result , he went
to stay with his elder brother and his wife for short awhile.
Awiko reveals how his sister in-law asked him one day to look for an ID.
This was early signs of being told indirectly to start being a responsible man despite his tender age.
He
was then forced to go back to the village, forged a church-birth card,
and birth certificate so as to meet the age of having an ID
constitutionally.
But not being lucky enough he was
chased away at the office of registrar since he was still under age."
I rem my aunt came and took me to lugari to work in the farm for
her son who was living in the city" he added that "we finished
harvesting and started doing same to other people to make money, but
when the harvesting season ended I had to carry a sack of maize back to
our village" he painfully added that this was one of the most bad
experiences he had ever encountered in his life
"it
was too heavy for me to carry ,my mom saw me and she cried because I
had to send some 1 to go and call them since I couldn't manage to carry
the maize sack alone".
Like
he was not ready to give up,the Superstar continued with casual jobs
to look for bus fare to Nairobi to meet his dad to take him back to
school.
Lucky enough,he managed but wen he arrived in Nairobi life changed ,his dad took him to another man to teach him carpentry.
He had no other option but to accept the offer and continue focusing for better life.
Despite
doing all this,he knew back in his mind that he had a talent and this
could one day save him."Life became more hard and tough under the care of
my carpentry teacher, he could spend outside living me behind with his
4yr old son to take care and make sure he goes to school, i had to go
back to my dads place, as I stayed there, a friend of my dad took me to
an Asian boss in town to work as a shopkeeper, where insult were my
daily greetings, I had to quit the job, another lady who used to come at
my dads place to buy water we used to sell , got me a casual job in
standard group where I worked for sometime ,wen we complained about the
wages,we were sucked in 2004, now that's where life hit me coz I had
rented a room which now paying rent of sh600 I couldn't manage, life
took me to stay with my younger brother who used to make African
ornaments, he taught me and started doing piecework to make bracelets
at sh2, while still doing that is wen I heard an advert in one of the
station about talent search, I collaborated with a friend of mine from
church to try our luck, we managed to register, and the competition
started and we worn best group, best song, back in 2006, we worn a
recording deal and that's where my music career started.He added.Awiko continued with the hard life but God is always faithful, through his toil he managed to ventureinto his own business,making African Attire's and ornaments, untill 2015 wen he did his first my first audio album tagged "USICHOKE" meaning "dont give up" followed by his first video song "NJOO TUSEMEZANE" "
He later came to do another video shooting in 2017 " TSINYANG'A TSIWEERE ( this are the last days) the song that did well on the market and on the same year he managed to participate in Western Kenya Gospel Awards Male Artist of the Year category which he worn the trophy.
"Its been a journey of challenges bUt I can see the light in the end of the tunnel" said the Superstar .
2019 he has done 2 songs NZIMIRIRA ( lead me) and BUKHA (arise) songs that are doing well on media .
His talent came to limelight again where he started recording music and thatS how he has managed to bE one of the greatest folk gospel music who is gifted to sing both in swahili and in his Local Luhyia language
You can follow his songs on the links bello
https://youtu.be/za_usioM8pw
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