Remembering Roy Bukuku

Dear Roy, your sudden demise is the most painful experience to a lot of us who knew you for the kind of a person you were. I still can't believe you are gone.



Tangu nimfahamu Roy, nia miaka ya mwanzo ya 90, wakiwa wamerudi Mbeya Tanzania toka Belgium. Familia nzima ya Bukuku wakawa marafiki wazuri na majirani wazuri sana. Roy alikuwa anakuja nyumbani kwetu kwa kaka zangu kila wakati na always alikuwa na smart ideas of what he wants to do for the future. I remember his music ideas i found to be unrealistic then cause there was no bongo flavor then in Bongo.
After he finished school he went to Arusha, and we started to hear he was doing well over there.
Then he moved to Dar where he became one of Bongo's all time greatest producers! He was instrumental in his sisters rise as one of Bongo's best musicians. Enica Bukuku, or Atu, as we call her back home in Mbeya.
I was very proud of his success together with Atu's. One thing with Roy as i've heard frm my brothers since i left, He NEVER changed. With all the success he achieved he remained the same guy he has always been, Very nice, very friendly, very hard working, very focused, very humble.
Its through lots of pain i'm trying to absorb the saddest news of him being gone.
May God give strenghth to Mama Roy, Atu, Evans, Mzee Bukuku and Enos, as well as the neighbors in Block T Mbeya, and all the people who knew him the way i did.
Rest in Peace.