Former Sol Generation signee, Bensol, has shared a deeply personal experience that left him broken but transformed his music career.<\/p>\n
In an interview with Philip Karanja on YouTube, the singer-songwriter recounted a period when his health deteriorated so severely that it nearly derailed his life and relationships.<\/p>\n
“A lot of things have happened in my life that I can attest were all by God’s doing and plan, but to pick one… there was a time when I was sick, and I genuinely felt like I was going to die,” BenSol revealed.<\/p>\n
During this challenging time, Bensol says his then-girlfriend ended their relationship due to his deteriorating condition.<\/p>\n
“Her family was like, ‘Huyu jamaa kwanza vile anakaa kukufa, maybe he even has AIDS,’ because I was sick and had lost a lot of weight,” he shared.<\/p>\n
However, Bensol clarified that contrary to the speculations, he had been battling tuberculosis (TB), a disease that had taken a toll on his body and left him physically weakened.<\/p>\n
As his health worsened, he had no choice but to return to his family home, a move that, unexpectedly, became a turning point in his career.<\/p>\n
“I was too skinny… but I feel like everything that happened was necessary in my life. I went back home, I had lost my voice, I couldn’t sing, so I was just writing songs,” Bensol said.<\/p>\n
Isolated from the noise of the outside world, he focused on songwriting, channeling his emotions and imagination into crafting music.<\/p>\n
“I penned a lot of songs from my imagination, trying to envision how they’d sound. I’d try to record them in my head in the huskiest voice, but I came up with the most amazing songs,” he recounted.<\/p>\n
This reflective, meditative approach to songwriting unlocked a new creative process for BenSol, which has become central to his music-making today.<\/p>\n
“That unlocked something in me, and I learned to write from my subconscious. These days, even when I go to the studio, I don’t like writing with loud music. I like going somewhere far and quiet, envisioning the song, seeing how life is happening around me, and I get the purest words from that,” he explained.<\/p>\n
BenSol added that this process, though unconventional, has produced some of his best work, even though others in the industry sometimes struggle to understand it.<\/p>\n
“I try explaining that to people and other artists, and sometimes they don’t get it. I just see the music,” he said.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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