MH Reporter
The recently married singer, entertainer, businesswoman and media sensation Esther Akoth Kokeyo, aka Akothee, has opened up about details of her life.
The mother of five was speaking to Ramogi TV.
“I was born in fairly rich family. My father was a District Officer on Lodwar while my mother was a school teacher,” said Akothee who spent most of her childhood years in Lodwar.
She would later join one of Nyanza’s top secondary school – NYABISAWA Girls High School in Migori County.
“I dropped out of secondary school in Form 2, and later got married to my first husband,” she said.
Akothee began her love for music during her early days in secondary school – and would dance to Congolese musician Yondo Sister’s famous tunes of the 1990s.
In marriage, life was tough for the young mother who says she is a staunch.
My foundation in Christianity kept me sane, and focused despite my love for music.
“I don’t drink alcohol; I don’t smoke cigarettes because I am a staunch Seventh Day Adventist (SDA),” – Akothee says.
“Music is tough, and it is very easy to find yourself losing direction, if you don’t have a good moral standing, which I got from SDA.
“I am a staunch member of the Seventh Day Adventist Church, and remain committed to the church,
Akothee would later go back to school to complete her studies.
“I went back to school at Wasio Secondary school in Migori, where I completed by studies and scored a Grade C+,” she says.
However, her marriage took a beating, after falling out with her first husband, a Luo man.
“My first husband left me, kicked me out of the house. It was tough for me,” she says.
She would later move to Mombasa to live with her brother who at the time worked with tour companies.
“I wanted to become an Airhostess, and so I moved to Mombasa to live with my brother who worked in a tour company.
“My brother who is currently a chief, and his wife, hosted me in their home. They welcomed me as I began learning how to drive,” said Akothee who would later join Luo musicians the ate Musa Juma and Tony Nyadundo as a dancer.
Her beautiful dance moves would later open the doors for her – as a group of white-men invited her to dance at their event in Netherlands.
“The white-men paid me Sh300,000 which I used to buy a car, and soon I formed a tour company,” she said.
Akothee has five children; two are white, and three are Africans.
She says the experience she went through in her first marriage taught her a painful lesson.
“If I marry a man, he has to come and live in my house, that’s because I have a home,” she says, drawing reference how her first husband kicked her out of the house.