On April this year, when rumours started to circulate on social media that the late Kikuyu benga music artist Joseph Kamaru had died at Avenue Hospital in Nairobi where he had been receiving treatment, Kamaru was quick to react.
Kamaru trashed the death rumours asking his fans and family members to give the rumours a dead ear as he was 'alive and kicking'.
"I’m alive and kicking. Tell my fans and the extended family members that I am well and recuperating and they should ignore the reports of the haters," said Kimaru.
"I dedicate them (the haters) to God to deal with them for misleading the country that I am no more. Whoever takes the role of the Lord to 'kill' his people can only be dealt with by him," Kamaru told the Nation on April 27.
Kamaru was optimistic that God could not take him away before overseeing a number of things related to music development in Kenya and the Kikuyu culture.
Kamaru whose career spanned for over 40 years, said that he wanted to revolutionise the music industry as well as mentor upcoming artists with an aim of having them compose good songs that would give them better returns.
"There have never been bad times for the music industry like these times. There are cartels and the piracy issues," he told the same publication.
On the Gikuyu culture, Kamaru said he planned to build a cultural centre on one of his farms in Muranga to safeguard the Gikuyu culture.
The centre, he had indicated, would have been the first of its kind where young people would be taught and advised on the Gikuyu culture.
Unfortunately, as fate would have it, none of these dreams had been realised by the time the legendary artist died on Wednesday evening at MP Shah Hospital, Nairobi.