‘I GOT SAVED IN NAKURU’ VANESSA MDEE OPENS UP

Popular Tanzanian singer Vanessa Mdee, took to her TikTok account and opened up about being saved at the age of eight in Nakuru, Kenya. 

Vanessa shared how she along with her sister and brother, were attending Greensted International School at the time when she felt the call to embrace Christianity. “A lot of people don’t know I got saved at about eight years old in Nakuru, Kenya. At the time, me, my sister Nancy and my brother were studying at Greensted School and I remember our mother visiting us on Saturday during visiting day and we were like, ‘Mommy Mommy, we got saved, we got born again.’ and my mother was a Muslim at the time. She was like, what nonsense because we grew up Catholic and we were big on church.”

Vanessa emphasised the importance of instilling spiritual values in children from a young age. “Its funny that now when people say to me, ‘it’s so nice that you’ve given your life to Christ.’ But my life was always given to Christ. I just wasn’t living right. I say all of this to say I’m a living testimony of teaching your kids about God early so that when they grow older, they don’t stray away but find their way back, which was me. Throughout my career all the things that I did, I always felt a deep conviction and I always felt like pulling back.”

In June 2020, Vanessa announced she had quit secular music and confessed that the better part of 2019 she drank herself to sleep and lied to the people around her to cover up, “I became a person of horrible choices. I couldn’t recognize myself anymore because I woke up every day trying to just get by and I don’t want to just get by anymore, I refuse to do it. I don’t want to seem like I am complaining about the blessing in my life because I do not. I am well aware I am highly favoured and truly blessed.

But this is my truth and me letting you into this space because I don’t want to live a candy-coated life anymore. I will not do it and the beauty and the blessing in this story is that I could have a different ending but my ending or my beginning is in love. Love saved my life, Love made me whole, God saved my life, God is love.

God brought me an earth angel who said things that I could not have heard from anyone else but my earth angel. You need to understand that throughout the year 2019, I drank myself to sleep every night. I am not proud of it but it is my truth and I know there are people who need to hear this. I was lying to people around me to cover up and to keep the facade alive. If I did not choose my life and soul, I don’t know if I would be here in a few years to come, so God save my life.”