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Nairobi News
Renowned gospel singer Anastacia Kakii has revealed the heartbreaking details of her decision to end her 19-year marriage with her first husband, Mukabwa.
The gospel star, known for her powerful voice and inspirational music, shared that despite the long years invested in the relationship, circumstances led her to make the difficult choice to walk away.
Anastacia acknowledged that she tied the knot with Mukabwa at a very young age, though she chose not to disclose the exact number.
“My first marriage crumbled after 19 years. I later met my current husband after nine years. I got married to my first husband when I was very young. I don’t want to say the age,” she said.
Reflecting on the reasons for the marriage’s demise, she expressed that while she couldn’t blame anyone for the failure, getting married at such a young age played a significant role in the breakdown.
The ‘Watangoja Sana” hitmaker attributed her early marriag
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My faith kept me going: The moving story of singer ‘Kiatu Kivue’ singer Anastacia Mukabwa
One night in 2008, as Anastacia Mukabwa slept in her bedroom, she saw what she now describes as a vision.
“I saw a bright sheet of light with various scriptures written on it. God revealed to me that He wanted me to come up with a song that would not only touch lives but leave a mark for generations to come. To cap it all, God gave me the wordings of the song Kiatu Kivue during my dream and instructed me to release it,” she narrates during an interview with Eve.
She adds that when she woke up, she could hardly understand what had just happened. Was it just a dream?
As she went about her life, Anastacia chose to ignore what had happened, believing the memory would fade away. But over the next few nights, the dream kept coming back, over and over.
“I started to wonder if maybe God was speaking to me. Back then, I was serving as a leader for the praise and worship grupp a
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#WCW: Kiatu Kivue singer Anastacia Mukabwa still growing strong 15 years on
For a long time most people thought the popular Kiatu Kivue gospel tune was Rose Muhando’s song as Anastacia Kakii Obule aka Anastacia Mukabwa, the singer and composer, was relatively unknown in the music industry in 1998 when the song rocked the airwaves.
"Rose Muhando featured in the song, but I was the one who composed it," Anastacia says.
The album Kiatu Kivue has songs - Kiatu Kivue, Heshima, Manamba wa Matatu, Nzinzi Lela, Nishike Mkono, Tabu Zangu, Utukuzwe and Mfalme Farao.
“I strongly felt that it took the hand of God to single handedly come up with this album as it was an expensive venture, ” she says in impeccable Kiswahili, a result of growing up in Momsasa and one of the reasons her fans thought she was the popular gospel singer from Tanzania Rose Muhando.
But despite her fame many critics are of the opinion that Mukabwa has been on the low musically. With