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Curtain falls on composer of popular 'Marry Me' ballad

Waigwa Wachira in 1988. Inset: Louisa Mugoh, who inspired the classic, 'Marry Me', in 1979. [Courtesy]

“If I live up to 100 years there will be no tears.”

These is the first line of Waigwa Wachira’s classic love ballad, ‘Marry Me.’

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