The powerful Kenyan vocalist, Silayio will tonight be rocking the stage at the Kenya National Theatre in her first live concert in Nairobi after many years.
With an American Gospel Music Award (AGMA) nomination at only 18 years and a KORA award win at 20 years, Silayio has earned her title as one of Kenya’s leading female vocal performers. After several years touring the globe and opening for renowned international acts like Vivian Green, Donnell Jones, Cece Winans and Kirk Franklin, the vocal powerhouse is bringing the magic back home.
Psssst! Gig ya mine ni kesho!!!! Alililili!
Did I mention I'm working with a fire all female band? #weareNUBIA You isn't ready!
And that @Kambua @Misskihoro @amayonde @webi_ @noelnderitu @JuneGachui @soulsystah are joining me on stage???
Grab a ticket noooowww 🙂 pic.twitter.com/nI3H9NHbVb
— SILAYIO (@Silayio_Silayio) December 19, 2018
With two albums under her former brand ‘Neema Ntalel’, Silayio will tonight from 7 pm be sharing the stage with artists such as Kambua, Patricia Kihoro, Noel Nderitu, June Gachui, Mayonde, Angie Gachui and Webi. The Kora award winning artist will be backed by an all female band, the Flower Girl Project which features Olive Karmen, Kasiva Mutua, Ivy Alexander, Gakenia Mucharie and Tindi Mutindi.
Silayio gained international recognition when she was on the Voice Holland about a year where she finished 7th among 110 contestants.
Advance tickets to her concert are selling at Ksh. 1500 while Gate tickets will be sold for Ksh. 2000. Proceeds from the ticket sales will be shared with children from Ormeleleki Primary School in her home town in a bid to help in the fight for accessible mental health care.
Silayio is passionate about mental health having experienced the difficult journey of battling depression. In an interview with Kiss FM’s Adelle Onyango, the singer admitted that she battled with depression in high school into her adult life.
“It was 2015 and I was working at Mavuno church and I got a phone call from my closest friends and she said she found some emails of her sister who wanted to buy drugs so as to commit suicide, and long story short she eventually committed suicide and that really messed up my brain. I started questioning everything, am I right or wrong. My everything was collapsing and it was really hard. I decided to not tell anyone and went home. I quit my job because I couldn’t fake it. I would wake up in the morning and the first thing I felt was a knot in my stomach which is the anxiety and the terror of being a live and it wasn’t connected to anything tangible but your just empty and afraid and nothing was interesting. I didn’t sing for a month, it was a lost of interest in life,” said Silayio in an interview with Adelle Anyango.
However, the Voice Holland Season 8 Finalist now says that she if full of new vibrant life and music and is desperate to share this experience with her favourite audience at home.
Are you going to show up for the Silayio concert tonight?