‘Milkshake’ singer Kelis give up the US for fully totally different life
In the event you can imagine it, it’s been an entire 23 years since Kelis launched ‘Milkshake’.
And but it nonetheless stays an absolute banger, quoted endlessly in Instagram captions and conversations and performed at events.
However whereas the now 46-year-old nonetheless has success together with her music, she beforehand determined to give up life within the US for a complete change-up.
I imply, she’s not left ‘Milkshake’ and her different tracks behind, acting at quite a few festivals this summer time within the UK and Europe.
‘Milkshake’ was the lead single on Kelis’ third album, and she or he has offered six million information worldwide with specific success right here within the UK.
However final yr, she determined it was Kenya that she wished to name residence, shifting on the market together with her kids onto a 300-acre farm.
When she’s not performing, Kelis typically shared social media posts about her life there now and opening up about what it’s prefer to stay there.
Whereas she makes it clear she loves being there and that ‘Kenya remains to be one of many BEST nations on the continent for my part’, she opened up concerning the shift from being within the US.
“The roads, among the potholes will actually take your automobile out,” she mentioned in a earlier Instagram video. “In addition they have these velocity bumps, like they offer you a warning, they’re at nighttime, they don’t seem to be marked, you hit a bump and depart your soul behind you.”
She additionally mentioned the ‘waste administration’ is ‘completely terrible’ and struggles with importation.
“If you wish to stay right here like an American, it’s undoubtedly going to value you triple the value. If you convey something into the nation, not simply American stuff, it’s undoubtedly going to jack you,” Kelis continued.
“They are saying that if it’s not used right here in Kenya, then it’s like new, which is unnecessary. It may be 20 years previous overseas, in all probability Japan, and so they’ll nonetheless cost over Ksh8.4 million.”
Throughout an look on the Earn Your Leisure podcast final yr, Kelis mentioned she was residing there as a result of ‘it has all of the belongings you want’.
“Kenya has all the things. You could be far eliminated in rural areas or in bustling Nairobi. It’s tremendous secure, you may make investments cash and be right here,” she added.
In addition to sharing content material about her life on the farm and performing, Kelis additionally has frolicked travelling the continent and seeing different elements of Africa.
Oh, and so as to add to her various listing of credentials, she did actually take a hiatus from music within the late 00s to coach on the famend Le Cordon Bleu cookery faculty.
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