EDDY KENZO OPENS UP ON HIS GATEMAN FATHER, RWANDAN MOTHER

Ugandan singer Eddy Kenzo is in Nairobi for a highly-billed concert which was held at Galileo Lounge on Saturday and he is already making some historic revelations to the CITIZEN TV there. In an interview with Citizen TV’s One on One Program, Eddy Kenzo revealed that he does not know any of his relatives on both his father’s and mother’s sides.

“My father was a retired military officer but he never took care of me because he had nothing to give. He was very poor. He was a gateman – these ones you see opening and closing people’s gates,” Kenzo revealed.

Speaking of his mother, Eddy Kenzo also revealed that he never got to know her well since she died when he was still very young.

“I do not know any relatives on her side because she had arrived from Rwanda with her mother during the civil war in their home country and she died when I was just a baby,” Kenzo revealed.

Contrary to popular belief that Kenzo went through school up to S3, the singer revealed that he was in school for only 3 years.

“I was a street kid dancing at promotions for money and selling drinking water in taxi parks until a certain gentleman that used to work for the URA approached me and told me that he wanted to take me to school,” he started.

“When he asked me if I had ever been to school. I lied that I had been in P3, so when he took me to a certain primary school in Masaka, they gave me an oral interview for P3 pupils which I passed.” Kenzo.

Kenzo added that a few months later, the Good Samaritan got issues in court and told him that he was no longer able to support him in school.

“The other time I went to school was after a certain gentleman spotted my football talent and took me to Lubiri Secondary school. I lied that I had passed P7 and was allowed to join S1 since I was very good at football and on bursary,” he said.

Although he admitted that he hated school due to the fact that he was poor in class owing to his background, the singer said he studied till S3 before he dropped out to play professional football. He later joined multi-national-league champions, SC Villa’s U14 team.