Late Kenyan singer E-Sir dated media personality Talia Oyando. E-Sir’s brother Habib claimed this in a recent interview with Dr King’ori.
“Tallia alikua anadate E-Sir hizo days.” the brother to the late singer alleged Meaning in English (Talia used to date E-Sir at the time)
He added “So kuna time kama ameitwa na mother alafu anabonga kwa phone, yeye alikua ananiacha mimi nabonga kama yeye.”
(When mum calls him to do something while he was speaking to her and didn’t want to hang up, he would leave me on the phone to speak on his behalf)
E-Sir’s Death
The late singer died on a road accident on 16th March 2003. Singer Nameless was travelling in the same car with the music icon before his untimely death.
He was on his way back to Nairobi from a concert at Afraha Stadium, Nakuru town, to help promote his debut album, whose songs remain club bangers to date.
E-Sir was an inspiration and a mentor to many and for that matter, the image of an evolving youth urban music culture.
In a past interview, Nameless spoke about his musical twin, whom he was ruling the music scene with then.
“I met E-Sir in Splash (in Langata) after he had joined Ogopa and we became friends. We would do shows together and later sit down and talk about how the show was.”
Adding how their bond grew
“We would commute in a mathree. Some people would hate on our songs without knowing we are in the matatu with them. He would hear guys hating on our music style because we were doing music differently, and E-Sir would later come and tell me, ‘Yoh, these people are hating so much, let’s come together and become a power house’.” h continued to narrate.
“That is how [the hits songs] Boomba Train and Maisha were born. Boomba worked well for us, to date, that has become my pillar and it always gives me the energy to move on in my shows, because it talks about what we used to talk about, the struggles and how we wanted to overcome them.”
“When I started touring with E-Sir, I was big in the music industry and so I always made sure that I was the one who fungaas (closes) the show to maintain the audience. He would start and I would finish the show, then I would call him back to do Boomba Train.”
Nameless added about their last moment together, “Our last show with E-sir, we were in Nakuru. E-Sir used to study the market so fast and adjust his writing. I remember after some shows, he had become big and now he was the one who would even funga the show. That day he fungaad the show, and I came later to do Boomba Train,” Nameless recalled.
Nameless then opened up about the tragic accident that took E-Sir’s life.
“I did not know from the time I was taken to hospital when it all happened. I was told he was in a different hospital. I had no phone or any other way of reaching E-Sir’s.”
He continued, “My brother came from Nairobi. I asked everyone and no one told me. My brother is the one who told me, ‘E-Sir didn’t make it’. It did not sink in. Like you know, you were with someone and then you are told they are no more, it cannot sink in.”
He was affected by this, “I changed and entered a car that is when Boomba Train was played, and all I remember is the presenters then announced it. At this point, I broke down and that is when it sank in. I cried and as I was listening to his song playing, I could feel like he was talking to me.”
Nameless said life after E-Sir was gone was not easy.
“Moving on without him was hard for some moment. My wife always tells me that something in me changed. It took me back and I remember going to perform a song in his remembrance.
He concluded, “I remember when performing, I still had an injury but getting on stage and the love I felt for E-Sir just made me say that despite him going, I had to keep the fire going.”
by QUEEN SEREM
