KILIO

Over the next few weeks I will be writing about my album KILIO what it means to me and why you should buy it :)....The first song I think I should start with is Kilio the title track to the album.

Funny how this song was written. I had scheduled studio time then had to cancel for one or two disappointing reasons....so you can imagine the state of my mind....Got into a matatu to get back to work yes I only do music for a living....and that matatu ride was one I will never forget. So my manager and I, who also happens to be the one I write most of my music with, peacefully entered a matatu bound for Lavington. Upon entering, I handed the conductor a one hundred shilling note expecting to get 60kshs back, but instead received 40ksh. Now all my close friends and family members know that I detest injustice...anything that smells like it, looks like it and talks like it. I have a small body frame but a big mouth when it comes to fighting for my rights :)

I always wonder if that exercise for counting down from ten really works when you are annoyed. I know it does not work for me but never the less I did count, then held in my breathe and shouted my lungs out. I was so incensed I could have sworn that hot air jets were coming out of my ears....you may stop here to ask why I was annoyed over such a small amount. To that I say, it is the principle behind it and not the amount. You see, the conductor had charged everyone on that trip 20kshs and just because we were alighting at Lavington, he saw two cash cows mooing in this rickety beat down matatu...what followed was a series of hand throwing, bure kabisa's and born again bleeps :)  

Finally the matatu driver stopped and asked why the conductor had charged us 30kshs even though the matatu ride should have been 20kshs.....to cut the long story short justice was served on a big plate and we left as the conductor stared at us so angrily as if to say I know where you live. 

Little did I know we would thereafter write one of my most favorite songs off my album despite all the drama that this day had dished out on me....

So Kilio, is a song of good triumphing over evil, right over wrong and justice over injustice. This song talks about a firm belief in God who fights all our battles and how we should allow him to work his perfect way in us. It does not mean that we will always be silent as he fights, but that we do what he instructs us to do when the battle rages. Sometimes it will be to stand still, other times, it will be to make a whole lot of noise in his name :) This song is my testimony, my life story and hopefully Kilio will mean as much to you as it does to me....

www.soundcloud.com/nitahungu/kilio

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWgAWHC_L74&feature=g-all-esi