Meet the guardian who took in ‘Mwema’ boy Bradly
A city mum has been housing and helping develop the talent of a young boy whose video while singing Mercy Masika’s hit song Mwema went viral.
For Daizy Kayech, her background prompted her to make a call to Lisa who posted the video of Tredy Bradly not knowing that the boy’s life would be changed.
Lisa, who was living at Car wash area in Migosi, Kisumu County, had recorded the video as her memory of Bradly’s talent as she was moving houses.
For the time she had lived in that area, Bradly’s singing made her mornings as the boy lived in a make-shift structure near Lisa’s house.
Ms Kayech, who is now Bradly’s guardian, recalls how she saw Lisa’s video and felt the need to help and change the boy’s life.
“In my heart I did not know that it would get to this point where I am living with the boy. I knew I wanted to help, again because of my background and God having provided me with an opportunity where I know one or two producers I really wanted to help from a point of recording a song and then let him go. But when we spoke with Lisa we realised the boy had a lot of needs and we decided to get him to audition for a television competition,” Ms Kayech told Nairobi News.
KIDS FESTIVAL
The single mother of one then talked to Bradly’s grandmother who okayed her and Lisa to make decisions on behalf of her, consequently giving the two ladies guardianship of the boy.
Ms Kayech had to talk to her six-year-old daughter, Crystal to let her know that they would be living with Bradly as he pursued his talent.
“Lisa and Bradly came to Nairobi for auditions and for those three days they were staying in my house. But after the three days of course we were told by the producers that he has to stay because there was going to be a photo shoot and since Lisa had to go back to Kisumu for work she left the boy behind.
“After the results we were told he was among the 20 finalist and had to do a recording every Saturday. It boiled down to how he would afford the fares to and from Kisumu every week yet he is a needy boy. And so we decided to help give him a home in Nairobi,” Ms Kayech said.
Bradly was then assimilated into the lives of his guardian and her daughter whom Ms Kayech says adores him.
The nine-year-old performed a rendition of Sauti Sol’s Kuliko Jana during the August Kids Festival where he also met Mercy Masika who has been in touch with his guardian to help nurture his talent.
The boy’s mother is an alcoholic whose other two children have dropped out of school.
Bradly is the second born and his 14-year-old brother is said to be a talented footballer despite dropping out of school.
SING OUT SHOW
According to Ms Kayech, the last born in Bradly’s family is a seven-year-old who does not go to school as well and lives with their grandmother in Car wash area.
Bradly has since started school in Sankofa Academy-Syokimau on a full scholarship and is still recording the KTN Sing Out show that will start airing in October.
Ms Kayech has also linked Bradly to a voice coach who is getting Bradly ready for the recording of his first single in October.
The single’s audio and video productions will be paid for by Ms Kayech with the help of her personal friends.
“Pitson offered to assist Bradly in writing his first single as the boy has more of raw Luo songs as opposed to Swahili which we chose as the language for the first single. Many other people have gotten in touch to assist including Mercy Masika whom we are meeting again this Sunday, Abedy Ngoso, Evelyne Wanjiru and Rigan Sirkozy,” said Ms Kayech.
The city mum says she intends to help Bradly nurture his singing talent as well as complete education as she herself knows the pain of lacking and is not helping while expecting anything in return.
