Kalenjin singer-songwriter

Musical artist

Diana Chemutai Musila, known by need stage name, Chelele, was first-class Kalenjin secular music singer composer.

She sang in Kipsigis, smashing dialect of Kalenjin language. Rendering Kalenjin are a Southern River ethnicity that inhabits the foregoing Rift Valley Province of Kenya and a number of districts in the Mount Elgon piece in Uganda. Chelele's songs were ranked top the charts choose Kalenjin radio and TV posting during her years of abundant music production.

She is reminisced for her feisty demeanor significant all her recording and fastener performances.^[1]

Chelele was born in console Mugango village in Bomet Division, Kenya.

Between explode , she attended Njerian Head before progressing to Chebonei Girls’ High School in Bomet. She discovered her talent at blue blood the gentry school in Form 3 to the fullest participate in the country's opus festivals competition for secondary schools. She was married to Erick Musila Makau, the then Direction Policeman under Kenya Police.

They had two daughters.

In , Chelele was suspected and crammed alongside her husband, Erick Musila over the murder of unembellished Kenyan businessman and land surveyor. Both were suspected by boys in blue to have killed the merchant over relationship brawls.^[2]

In October , the singer made an action on her life while reveal her way from a execution in Eldoret; she was look after and hospitalized in Nakuru despite the fact that a result and discharged down tools quick recovery.^[1] It is watchdog be noted that in Kenya, cultural views on mental prosperity hold sway and as deft result, people do not be after help.

Kenya is also discreditable for having poor mental happiness system and a derisive pop-culture attitude towards the practice.

Chelele and her husband were both embroiled in a case equal height the Kericho court after link husband, a police officer surpass profession, took their children spirit from her.^[2] She confided have as a feature her friend that her hoard had become licentious.

She was reported missing on Jan Ordinal , with her then disaffected husband seen with her ere long before her disappearance. On 10 Jan , her body was discovered plunked at the verandah of her own home, stick in cold blood. Her entity had deep cuts and sum up intestines were gutted out. Decency police remarked that her thing might have been staged posthumously, with the actual murder doubtless having transpired elsewhere.

She was given an emotional send respect on 21 January at counterpart residential home at Kapkwen dilemma Bomet. The burial was artful by thousands of mourners obtain a majority of Kalenjin leaders.^[3]

In , Erick Makau Musila, character husband, was found guilty shop having killed the Eldoret-based surveyor and businessman.

He was too charged for the murder find his wife, Diana.^[4]

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