Gospel sensation Esther Wahome: Depression almost ended my music career

Esther Wahome photos when she attended the wedding reception of gospel singer Daddy Owen and Farida Wambui at the Radison Blue hotel,Nairobi. April 21st,2016. Photo/Elvis Ogina (Nairobi)

"I would park my car and get into a building and when I come out, I would look for it for hours, unable to remember where I parked. Sometimes, in the course of a conversation, someone would ask me where my son school is and it would take me a while to recall," says Esther Wahome who would later realise that her memory loss, though mild and temporal, was as a result of the depression she had sank into and did not know.

"When you are depressed you never really recognise it. In any case, depression is only known to be a first world disease," she says of the depression that started three years after the birth of their son, Mureithi Wang'ondu. "The joy my son brought to my home when he was born and the favour that our good God has accorded me in the music industry prompted my husband and I to name him, Eldad, which translates to God has loved in Hebrew.